If at all possible, I'd like to have comments back by tomorrow evening (I've printed out the manuscript again & am ready to get cracking!). Comments by then will be most helpful ( Read more... )

Well, I have finished the second draft of my novel/thesis and it is now in the hands of my betas. I'm excited to get comments back, but at near-on 500 pages, I'm not expecting them any time soon ( Read more... )

So today I will be using a favorite quote of halseanderson's (on whose lj I first saw this a few years back):

"Don't be 'a writer.' Be writing." - William FaulknerI'm 5 chapters from the end of my revision, so I'm off to "be writing." Betas might just get the whole novel instead of the first half when I send it out today! Excitement ( Read more... )