Original Manuscript
Jan. 6th, 2003 01:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ivyblossomMy original novel is almost finished. I can't believe it. I am in shock. Look at me shivering. I've got about 3k words to go on the last chapter, and then. EEEEK! DONE DONE DONE!
Well, not really. Then I have to, you know, like, edit it. And stuff. But still. Draft one will be COMPLETE! Possibly as of TONIGHT!
*dies a million deaths* I never thought this day would come. *plays triumphant music* All that and I managed to keep it under 100K. ph34r me.
While everyone is all pumped up about being able to write long long long long novels, honestly, anything over 100K is like, totally impossible to publish if you're not Marion Zimmer Bradley or Anne Rice or Stephen King, so that's why I was keen to keep it well under. They suggest that your first novel not go over 60K, my god, like that's possible. *snorts* I'm at about 74K at the moment, and with the edit that will probably rise to 80K. 80k is the boundary I don't want to breach.
*eyes editors* We can do this. Yes, yes we can.
*weeps for joy*
Well, not really. Then I have to, you know, like, edit it. And stuff. But still. Draft one will be COMPLETE! Possibly as of TONIGHT!
*dies a million deaths* I never thought this day would come. *plays triumphant music* All that and I managed to keep it under 100K. ph34r me.
While everyone is all pumped up about being able to write long long long long novels, honestly, anything over 100K is like, totally impossible to publish if you're not Marion Zimmer Bradley or Anne Rice or Stephen King, so that's why I was keen to keep it well under. They suggest that your first novel not go over 60K, my god, like that's possible. *snorts* I'm at about 74K at the moment, and with the edit that will probably rise to 80K. 80k is the boundary I don't want to breach.
*eyes editors* We can do this. Yes, yes we can.
*weeps for joy*
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Date: 2003-01-06 10:29 am (UTC)Gaaah! ::wants to read::
But anyway! Hurrah for you! I envy your writerness!
(Note- I've got this thing about reading manuscripts in particular. Mwahahah. I've read several that are on their ways to being published. ::snerk:: )
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Date: 2003-01-06 10:29 am (UTC)Well done, loff.
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Date: 2003-01-06 10:53 am (UTC)And I want to read!
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Date: 2003-01-06 11:04 am (UTC)Congratulations!
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Date: 2003-01-06 11:42 am (UTC)2) What the heck is ph34r ?
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Date: 2003-01-06 11:43 am (UTC)Congrats!!
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It's been my experience, watching other friends go from manuscript to publication, that the thing gets a lot shorter, anyway, because nearly the entire first chapter gets scrapped. One always puts in more exposition than one needs.
OTOH, you may well not have done that in the first place. At any rate, I'm sure you will be just fine. Congratulations! Hurrah!
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Date: 2003-01-06 02:07 pm (UTC)You have no idea how much better I feel having read this comment. Yes. First chapter. Too much exposition. Way too much. It's already been scraped and rewritten once and is about to go through that again.
I'm so glad to hear that that's normal. The first chapter is the hardest of all of them. I suck at beginnings. Endings, I'm all about. Beginnings. Most important, and the part I crap out at.
*loves* OMG thanks so much for this comment. It really makes me feel better about my craptistic original first chapter.r
hehehhee.
*loves more*
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Date: 2003-01-06 08:57 pm (UTC)Seems just like yesterday you'd started The Project. Ivy, you will let us know when the book is *available*, right?
Jillian
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Date: 2003-01-06 12:34 pm (UTC)My other friend who's a novelist, has finally picked up her 900 pg draft and started revising after the editors picked it over. Now if I can just keep her working on that, and you working on yours, pretty soon I'll have more fun new books to read than I know what to do with!
YAY!
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Congratulations! You rule.
I aspire to be like you. (All my novels are unfinished and in-progress. Gah.)
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Date: 2003-01-06 12:53 pm (UTC)Yay!
Date: 2003-01-06 01:01 pm (UTC)Would you tell us what the basic storyline is?
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Date: 2003-01-06 01:29 pm (UTC)Tangent...
Date: 2003-01-07 10:03 am (UTC)Love it!
Re: Tangent...
Date: 2003-01-07 01:22 pm (UTC)Yeehaa!
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Date: 2003-01-06 02:37 pm (UTC)Megan
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Date: 2003-01-06 03:03 pm (UTC)And after such overwhelming beauty as Haven and even your heartfelt little nephew-plugging journal entries, we cannot wait to see what you will inflict on the world at large.
*hands Ivy the golden cup*
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Date: 2003-01-06 04:43 pm (UTC)[claps] Congratulations! That is very cool.
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Date: 2003-01-06 06:55 pm (UTC)*cheers*
Awesome
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