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What to do after your first draft is written

The next stage

Update on the last post: I have written the final sentence of the first draft of book3.

All the work starts now:

1. Transfer the file to Kindle as personal document/print it out to read it through;

2. Go back and do the research fine points (Do you know the […]

On the home run

At 82,000 words of my 90,000 target, I’m fast approaching the end of book3. My heroine is about to confront the source of her problems and deal with her definitively. And she’s going to save the day. Obviously. The knitting is nearly knitted. The pudding is nearly boiled. But it’s almost unbearable. I want to […]

Double memories

Finding something that you know will give somebody else a great deal of pleasure is a smiley moment. Nothing is the same as watching the other person’s eyes widen. Their look of immediate disbelief dissolves as you hand it to them and they receive it with a huge grin on their face.

I decided to […]