This afternoon I finished the rough cut of my 7th major draft of my novel, The Darkening Dream. In my process, a rough cut is a draft (in this case v4.55 — yes you can tell I’m also a computer programmer)…
One of the weird and disconcerting things about the revision stage of novel writing is the waiting. For me a revision often goes like this: 1. Receive a bunch of notes about problems or possible improvements for the book. 2….