j_cheney: (Stabby)
J. Kathleen Cheney ([personal profile] j_cheney) wrote2008-11-07 02:35 pm

Sticking a sword in it....

...and calling it done.

The ROUGH draft of The Devil in the Details, at 93.3K. ROUGH. REALLY ROUGH.

This will come out at 100K when I rewrite it, I believe, but I'm putting it aside for a while. I didn't pin on a purty ending, primarily because it's so rough that I suspect most of the last chapter will end up being trashed anyway. Thank heavens I have permission to write terrible first drafts.

This is officially my fourth completed novel....so am I not supposed to sell this one?

Getting back to short stories for the next couple of weeks, plus the plot bunny's epic.

[identity profile] j-cheney.livejournal.com 2008-11-08 03:09 pm (UTC)(link)
By the time I get to the end of something this long, it's pretty sloppy. I always have to go back and reshape.