Sunday 2nd August 2020

There’s this thing when you are a writer, or at least for me there is.  Writing a novel takes a LONG time.  Between the planning, drafting and redrafting, this can take months and even years before you release it to someone else: be it an agent, an editor, or a beta reader.

And then you wait.

It’s not unreasonable.  Some people can tear through a book inside a day… but to really read it and consider it, takes many, many hours

And yet the period where you are waiting for feedback feel unbearably long.  Logic tells you that even if they don’t have to slot it in between other work, they’re still going to need a lot of time to read it.  But there’s a part of me that just wishes they could read at the speed as Neo downloads information in The Matrix.

So, I am very grateful that the person who has read my latest draft has done it inside a week.  They let me know yesterday they were hoping to finish today and I was readying myself for it to take a bit longer… not because the person is unreliable (far from it!) but because life happens and I didn’t want to feel disappointed if it took a while longer.

But they came through as always… and the feedback is really positive.  This redraft appears to have worked and aside from a couple of minor tweaks that will need at most about 3 sentences altered or added, it looks like the novel is ready.

I hope to make those changes tomorrow and then send off to my agent.

From there…well a lot of things could happen.

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