By I’m sitting here in the dark, quiet morning, sipping on coffee and getting words down on the page. In a little bit I will go dig at the job boards and such for new, exciting places to submit my resume to, but for now it’s just me and my story.
Yesterday was a good writing day with close to five thousand words by the time I was done, and that was largely the climax of the book. I love when words come so easily. I’m not far from done with my zero draft now.
My love for these characters is large. My MC is more like me than any other character I have ever written, or maybe she’s more like the me I wanted to be. Either way, she is maybe my favorite character since Amara in Forever.
Once I’m done, I’ll compile the project (I’m working in Scrivener as an experiment) and export it to a word or pdf document and have a couple beta readers give it a good read to identify anything too out there, too unbelievable and plot holes.
Then it will be time for my first edit pass. After that, I’ll pay a professional editor to give it a good working over. And another edit pass. At that point, I’ll be ready to start querying agents, which I’ve never done and is rather terrifying. But it’s time to take the next step in my writing career.
Happy Monday, Readers! I need more coffee.
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Natalie J Case 