mabfan ([personal profile] mabfan) wrote2005-08-26 08:06 am
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Novel Progress: Second Draft FINISHED at 115,000 Words

Just a few minutes ago, I finished my revisions to the novel. I ended up cutting a chunk, but the second draft is still a good sized book.

I'm hoping that this will be the end of it, and that it's good to go. However, I do have two professional writers who agreed to take a look at the book and give me feedback, and then I have to send it to my agent, and listen to her suggestions. But at this point, I'm ready to take a break from the project again, and concentrate on some other, shorter work that has been waiting for my attention.
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[identity profile] magid.livejournal.com 2005-08-26 12:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Woo-hoo! Congratulations!

(I am so looking forward to reading this someday. In hardback, of course :-)
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[identity profile] gem225.livejournal.com 2005-08-26 12:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Congratulations and good luck getting it published!

[identity profile] madwriter.livejournal.com 2005-08-26 01:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Congrats! Have a soda and smile, as friends used to tell me. :)

[identity profile] lisafeld.livejournal.com 2005-08-26 01:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Yays!

[identity profile] gnomi.livejournal.com 2005-08-26 02:23 pm (UTC)(link)
YAY!!!

[identity profile] stakebait.livejournal.com 2005-08-26 02:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Congratulations!

[identity profile] csbermack.livejournal.com 2005-08-26 02:49 pm (UTC)(link)
That's wonderful! Congratulations!

[identity profile] dragonbear82.livejournal.com 2005-08-26 02:50 pm (UTC)(link)
WOOOT WOOOOT

[identity profile] ffoeg.livejournal.com 2005-08-26 02:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Congratulations. It's quite an achievement!

[identity profile] angwantibo.livejournal.com 2005-08-26 03:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Yabadabadooooooooooo!

Eulaliaaaaaaaaaaaa!

[identity profile] jenwrites.livejournal.com 2005-08-26 04:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Congrats! And if you can produce a final copy in just two drafts, then you're a way better writer than me! (And can you teach me how?)

[identity profile] kuroshii.livejournal.com 2005-08-26 04:41 pm (UTC)(link)
yay!

::big, squishy hugs::

[identity profile] sleigh.livejournal.com 2005-08-26 04:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey hey!! Congratulations on finishing the draft -- always a great feeling!

[identity profile] zhaneel69.livejournal.com 2005-08-26 04:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Rock on!

Zhaneel
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[personal profile] ckd 2005-08-26 05:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Hooray for you!

[identity profile] vettecat.livejournal.com 2005-08-29 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
Mazel tov!

[identity profile] lisafeld.livejournal.com 2005-08-29 11:26 am (UTC)(link)
Woo hoo! Congrats, and I hope this one has a short and happy journey to the printing press.

[identity profile] sdavido.livejournal.com 2005-08-29 12:05 pm (UTC)(link)
I am SO looking forward to buying a hardcover when it comes out. I might ask you to sign it, but I won't ask for a freebie! *grin*

For what it would be worth, while I'd like to offer to read for you if you desired (there would be no pressure, of course), I just don't have the time right now to be sure I could read your novel with the attention it deserves. So you don't have to take the time to explain why it's far better to get the opinon of a professional novelist, than a person so far removed from the field as to be humorous *grin again*.

I can say, however, that I'm impressed yet again with your acheivements. Well done!

(BTW, the Icon selection is in your honor this time!)
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