Wednesday, February 1, 2012

This "taking writing seriously" stuff is a fascinating way to go.

So at a little over 200 "conventional" pages and something over 50,000 words, I am within a few more thousand words of declaring victory over Draft One, and have my battle plan in place for Draft Two (many VERY substantial changes in plot, but satisfyingly few in any characters). What's really scary (I may have mentioned this below/above) is that I have a beginning sketch and prologue already for the second book (same setting & characters, mostly), and a notional nod for a third. What's tough is sticking with the First though. But once I'm officially "working on" Draft Two, I plan to begin Book Two, so I'll be doing new write and rewrite in parallel. I suspect I'll go wacky, but I don't think I"ll burn out.