My current WIP is nearing completion. Daughter of Winter is at 65,000 words. I’ve only got another two or three chapters to add and then I get to start the first rewrite.
Writing the conclusion is always a little intimidating. You have to take all the plot threads you’ve introduced and tie them up in a neat bow.
After I do a couple/three rewrites, it’ll have to marinade for a few months. By six months to a year (depending on how long my rewrites on The Brotherhood and Last Witch take–or the rewrites a publisher requires for Priestess, I’m being positively hopeful here) I should have another novel ready to send out.
A major New York Publisher will of course call me, screaming with joy, at the marvelous marvel that is my newest masterpiece.
Q4U: Where are you in your writing cycle?
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I am about a third of the way through my non-fiction manuscript. I have been slower than usual this summer due to life complication. I am determined to get back on track, though.
I am right with you–facing the conclusion and intimidated by the whole process. I keep putting it off and yet I'm running out of time. I wish I had months to let it marinate, but I didn't use my time wisely in the beginning and now I'm on a deadline. Yick. I'll send good vibes your way if you'll send some to me as well 🙂
Becky: Don't you hate those life complications. I want everything to run smooth as a chocolate milkshake. And to taste just as good!
Josi: Ah, the joys of working with deadlines. I have to invent my own to keep my going. Perhaps someday, a publisher will try to enfore some real ones on me. Sigh.
Josi: And good luck with selling your van!
I'm confused as to your term of "rewriting"
Do you start all over again? Or do you mean revising/editing?
I'm 2/3 of the way through my complete rewrite of Monarch. It's been a tough but fun journey.
Good luck! And congrats!
Congrats on being almost done!
I'm currently revising my finished WIP and I had one of those moments today where angels sang and the heavens opened up. My ending was off and I knew it was off when I wrote it. (I'm with you on endings being intimidating.) But then I came up with a solution- one that was really the easiest imaginable.
So now I just have to revise the whole thing! 🙂
Glamis: I should have made that clearer. I have a few chapters to add, and a new plot twist I came up with later that needed to be added in. Then I need to do a few edits. So no, I'm not actually rewriting the whole thing.
Stephanie: I love those moments! They don't come often, but when they do, everything on my life is put on hold until it passes.