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Jan. 24th, 2008 11:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
felis_ultharusTime Elapsed for all versions: Two years, three months
Number of pages in the current version: 213
For the third time in two year and three months, I got to lift my head from a finished product of a novel, and breathe again. I'll be printing it up this evening, after work.
It still flawed -- just how deeply flawed I'll leave to my three editors to determine. It is improving, however. For the first time I can actually imagine it as having a fan base for it beyond my circle of friends.
I picture them as very small in number, but quick to defend my work against the criticism of the majority who've read it.
I've also started comparing its flaws to flaws of the works of great writers I admire. This is progress. I doubt I'll ever see its best passages as on par with theirs, but if fails in the same ways that the works of the great fails, that's a step forward.
For my editors: I've tweaked the back-stories on several of my characters, so they won't be consistent with previous versions. Hopefully, they'll be consistent within this version.
Number of pages in the current version: 213
For the third time in two year and three months, I got to lift my head from a finished product of a novel, and breathe again. I'll be printing it up this evening, after work.
It still flawed -- just how deeply flawed I'll leave to my three editors to determine. It is improving, however. For the first time I can actually imagine it as having a fan base for it beyond my circle of friends.
I picture them as very small in number, but quick to defend my work against the criticism of the majority who've read it.
I've also started comparing its flaws to flaws of the works of great writers I admire. This is progress. I doubt I'll ever see its best passages as on par with theirs, but if fails in the same ways that the works of the great fails, that's a step forward.
For my editors: I've tweaked the back-stories on several of my characters, so they won't be consistent with previous versions. Hopefully, they'll be consistent within this version.