I've been trying for days, literally, to get this downloaded video on my blog. For someone who is kind of a Gadget Girl, I can be very technically challenged.
Anyway . . . I hope you enjoy it.
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I'm moaning over what I thought was going to be a final read-through turning into an edit. But Jeffery Deaver's process has made me want to suck my moaning right back down my throat.
Granted, my little manuscript is a simple one, but still . . . this is amazing. Perspective, ya know?
CR: Under the Dome by Stephen King. Expect to see this one here for a while. Slow reader + thick book = epic read. Another thick one that has remained on my all time favorites list is not a mystery or a suspense. Tom Wolfe's A Man in Full is around 300 pages less then King's. I'm afraid to read it again because I'd hate not to still love it.
It's all better with friends.
Did I miss the link, Peg? I'd love to see it.
ReplyDeleteDon't worry--there *is* no final read through! My ms is with a publisher now--not even an editor, a publisher--and I bet there are still eight trillion things to be found ;)
However, one day it will be between cloth/paper/screen or what have you and then you will edit no more (even though you may want to :)
Jenny, thanks for confirming there was an issue regarding the video. And thanks for your husband's help in getting the code fixed. Sheesh. (I feel so la-ti-da talking about code as if I understood it.)
ReplyDeleteMy idea of a Final Read-Through is that it will be ready for the query stage. And honestly, I will love the day an editor gets his/her hands on it because I know it can be better. I've just given up on trying to figure out how.
30-40? He has to be so sick of the story by then . . .
I do rolling revisions, so I'm sure I reach 30-40 revisions easily. But that's on my mainstream work. I only do a few revisions on my erotica. They're simpler story lines.
ReplyDeleteAs many times as I've re-written/edited the early pages of this ms, I'm probably at 30-40 myself. Or 100. I just don't want to think about it.
ReplyDeleteExcellent topic, Peg! I use Story Magic (thanks again to Robin Perini and Laura Baker and my MagicMaker CPs), so I think that early brain damage really helps, and probably counts for re-writes at the very basic stage. I also revise as I receive feedback, chapter by chapter, from my CPs, so that counts for sessions, too. Still, counting everything, I probably don't exceed a dozen. Hm. Jefferey's more successful than me so I should listen to him, LOL Thanks for sharing.
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