I met a self-imposed deadline for completing the seventh rewrite of my work in progress by June 30.
But what I learned, in the end, is that I've got another rewrite or two before I can send the manuscript to my editor. I'm not sure if this is the agony of writing, making the necessary changes to improve the story, but it's the only way of getting things done.
As with the previous rewrites, I've added scenes and deleted scenes, added dialogue and deleted dialogue, tightened the narrative . . . well, you get the idea, just about everything.
I added about 5k words to the manuscript, and now it totals more than 78k. The first draft was only about 48k, so it's grown quite a bit over the past 11 months.
If all works out to plans (and it seldom does), I hope to finish the manuscript by the end of July. I see one more rewrite
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and then a fast read before I send this fourth installment of the "John Ross Boomer Lit" series on the way to my publisher.
I'll confess that it's never taken me this long to write a draft and get it ready for publication. It's usually about a six-month endeavor.
But because of the pandemic, and other things going on in my life, I found that I got more distracted than usual. I don't know if it's an age thing, or simply me, but my concentration levels aren't what they used to be. I guess it's a combination of the two since I'm certainly not getting any younger.
Furthermore, and most importantly, I wasn't pleased with where the story was going and had to make a few major changes. I hope it's smooth sailing the rest of the way (more wishful thinking on my part).
Until the next time
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