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Feb. 19th, 2008 11:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
felis_ultharusI'm working today, which is strange for a Tuesday. It's been a good week. I finished the re-write of my novel on Sunday, and I'm about 15% of the way through the edit. I hope to have it read for Saturday for my editors.
That makes three re-writes in four months, but I had an epiphany just after finishing last time, and saw how to fix most of the remaining problems. I think I'll need feedback, though, before I can proceed, though. Plus a break, while I work on poetry and start work on another novel.
Some parts drag, and a few places the tone might still be off. I think, though, that the really rough patches are all gone.
It's not The Edible Woman and it's not Headhunter and it's not The Divine Ryans. However -- on the other end of the scale -- it's much better than a lot of the tripe that gets pumped out and put on our shelves, and it's probably closer to literary Elysium than Tartarus.
Fortunately for me, any country where Robert Lecker's fictionalized autobiography Dr. Delicious can hit the shelves clearly has no standards whatever, so that gives me hope.
That makes three re-writes in four months, but I had an epiphany just after finishing last time, and saw how to fix most of the remaining problems. I think I'll need feedback, though, before I can proceed, though. Plus a break, while I work on poetry and start work on another novel.
Some parts drag, and a few places the tone might still be off. I think, though, that the really rough patches are all gone.
It's not The Edible Woman and it's not Headhunter and it's not The Divine Ryans. However -- on the other end of the scale -- it's much better than a lot of the tripe that gets pumped out and put on our shelves, and it's probably closer to literary Elysium than Tartarus.
Fortunately for me, any country where Robert Lecker's fictionalized autobiography Dr. Delicious can hit the shelves clearly has no standards whatever, so that gives me hope.