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Finished Read Through of my Draft.

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Kris_W:
It's good to tell the first reader that the only thing you _must_ know is 'Where did you stop reading'. No preassure reads go better.

comprex:

--- Quote from: SCARPA on December 29, 2009, 02:13:00 AM --- Tell em about yours.

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Mine?   I have been chronically incapable of stopping self-revision.

meg_evonne:

--- Quote from: SCARPA on December 28, 2009, 10:59:22 PM ---Good for you! God Bless peer pressure.
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  I like the beer pressure idea.


--- Quote from: squeemonster on December 28, 2009, 11:01:50 PM ---How are you going to know when to stop revisions?
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  nicole bokat in class said, "When its published."  I know snark snark...  LOL


--- Quote from: squeemonster on December 29, 2009, 02:41:39 AM ---Mine?   I have been chronically incapable of stopping self-revision.
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  I keep learning and growing, so when I go back to review---there's a whole new author working on it.  *sigh* 

SCARPA:
As I write I am plowing forward on the revisions. Its more fun and much more precise / surgical than I thought it would be. I have been able to leave the bulk of it alone. Its towards the end that I will have whole sections to essentially write from scratch and insert where it may get dicey or not. With any luck it may just go like a knife through butter.

belgarion:
I have one completed draft of a novel of approx 380 pages. I started the revision process after letting it rest for about 6 months (having read Swain and helped Linnea Sinclair with Hope's Folly in the middle) and threw the draft down and my hands up in disgust. There were so many holes in that draft that I've given up on that novel. Maybe I'll go back to it some time, but it seems like the revision process is/was going to take me the amount of time it took to write the draft in the first place (approx 3 yrs). I've since started on another WIP and I'm much happier with it. Of course, I've written my main characters into a corner (actually a cave) and am waiting for them to tell me how they are going to get out of it without serious casualty.

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