Deadline Dash: That Was the Week That Was
Oct. 5th, 2012 07:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lagilmanEver wonder what writers do when they finish a book? Especially if they finish it a full 24 hours before deadline?
Well, I can't speak for anyone else, but when I wrote the last line of FIXED (Gin & Tonic #2) I went a little crazy. I made a bowl of pasta-and-pesto, and...cleaned the apartment of the week-long OMGWTF disaster it had become while I hit deadline.
And then I caught up on (most of) the email that had piled up, paid some bills, and watched some television. Rock on, PERSON OF INTEREST. Rock on.
And then I slept. Seven hours, uninterrupted. It was lovely.
This morning? A podcast interview, reworking some sample chapters, editing three stories for other people, going back to the OTHER book I have to finish, working on some digital production things... and read over the mss one more time before I hit "send."
Life, she keeps on keeping on.
In the meanwhile, I am not a hundred percent thrilled with FIXED, but a submission draft is, by definition, fixed enough so that your editor can break it properly. Madame Editrix will bring fresh eyes to the plot and the characters, and tell me what worked, what didn't, and what she wants me to do differently. And then - armed with her comments - I will be able to make it a hundred percent better.
It's a silly little system, but it works.
In the meanwhile, there are things going on in the publishing world, some involving me, some involving us all. I've been following along but I'm not sure how much what I am thinking on it is of interest to others... Y/N?
Well, I can't speak for anyone else, but when I wrote the last line of FIXED (Gin & Tonic #2) I went a little crazy. I made a bowl of pasta-and-pesto, and...cleaned the apartment of the week-long OMGWTF disaster it had become while I hit deadline.
And then I caught up on (most of) the email that had piled up, paid some bills, and watched some television. Rock on, PERSON OF INTEREST. Rock on.
And then I slept. Seven hours, uninterrupted. It was lovely.
This morning? A podcast interview, reworking some sample chapters, editing three stories for other people, going back to the OTHER book I have to finish, working on some digital production things... and read over the mss one more time before I hit "send."
Life, she keeps on keeping on.
In the meanwhile, I am not a hundred percent thrilled with FIXED, but a submission draft is, by definition, fixed enough so that your editor can break it properly. Madame Editrix will bring fresh eyes to the plot and the characters, and tell me what worked, what didn't, and what she wants me to do differently. And then - armed with her comments - I will be able to make it a hundred percent better.
It's a silly little system, but it works.
In the meanwhile, there are things going on in the publishing world, some involving me, some involving us all. I've been following along but I'm not sure how much what I am thinking on it is of interest to others... Y/N?
