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\nI’ve decided to write a novel in 5 days. Not a first draft, but a completed novel from concept to polish with rewrites included!<\/p>\n
\nI’ve decided to write a novel in 5 days. Not a first draft, but a completed novel from concept to polish with rewrites included!<\/p>\n
Today was\u00a0all about the second rewrite…<\/p>\n
I’m from the camp who believes the cliche that writing is rewriting so it was SUPER important that when scheduling out my week that I made time for multiple rewrites. No matter how well you plan or outline things happen when writing. A character who you thought would do one thing does something completely different and rewrites allow you to embrace those kind of changes.<\/p>\n
So my main focus today was to fix all the plot and character problems. I did have a few. The core of my story didn’t change from the original outline but the genre unsuspectingly did. I meant the book to be way more action like Taken or the Jason Bourne movies. There is action, but instead its much more a slower political thriller burn like The Pelican Brief or a\u00a0Brad Meltzer book.<\/p>\n
I had so much to do with the characters and I’m still not done with them. When you start a first draft they are all new and you don’t know them yet. Now that I know the story and have been through it a few times I’ve started to hear their voices. That means I still need to go back again and make sure that those voices are clear and distinct throughout the whole thing.<\/p>\n
Lisa is working a late night tonight (Plant emergency but not like she’s in-danger emergency) so I should have till midnight or later to keep working. My plan is to keep doing passes addressing and cleaning up all the character bits. Then tomorrow I’ll do a final line editing pass which for me is always the hardest slowest stage of writing a book.<\/p>\n
Four days in and I am feeling burned out. I’m ready to be done. Why couldn’t I call this “The 4 Day novel?” so that I could quit or “The 8 Day Novel” so I could take a break? \u00a0Uhhhh tomorrow will be painful, but I’m almost done. ONLY ONE MORE DAY!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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