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[felis_ultharus]

I've finished all but the final phase of my novel, now -- the quick edit, where I read through it one last time at a standard readerly pace.

I missed a few other deadlines, and I'm a single day behind of where I thought I'd be, but I think I'll be able now to make my deadline of next Wednesday for finishing the novel.

My first line of editors -- montrealais, em_fish, and jenjoou, ought to consider that a heads up that they'd be getting copies of it this week.

(Yeah, I know -- not like any of you don't have enough to do. On top of it all, I was hoping to get them back in a month-and-a-half's time, mid-December, to take with me to BC and do one last edit before I start sending it out in January.)

I'm really excited to be at this phase. Those who've known me a long time will probably not be too excited, because I worked on a previous novel for five years, then scrapped it, then rewrote this one after I read the criticisms.

But I really do feel I've passed a boundary. The first novel never got anywhere near this point, never even got to publishable. There are still structural/dialogue/tone problems with this second one, but nothing I think that'll necessitate a complete re-write.

In other news, LJ is not notifying me about responses to my posts and comments. I've discovered a number of these by accident. If I've missed anything important, please let me know.

Comments

[jenjoou.livejournal.com]

I look forward to reading it. ^_^

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

Thanks. You won't have to look forward for too long ^_^

[infinitecomplex.livejournal.com]

That's awesome, and I'm really impressed. I never got anywhere near that far with my attempts at novel-writing, so I have a lot of admiration not only that you were able to write the novel in the first place, but also that you've been so rigorous and thorough about the editing process. I suspect the results will be very good. :)

I very much look forward to reading it at the point when you're ready to distribute it more widely.

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

I will have the edited versions when I'm in BC this Christmas...

And I hope you're tight about it being good.