{"id":1125,"date":"2009-09-29T00:16:04","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T07:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=1125"},"modified":"2009-09-29T00:16:04","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T07:16:04","slug":"final-polish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/final-polish\/","title":{"rendered":"Final polish"},"content":{"rendered":"

I mapped out all the major assignments for my capstone class for the next month on my calendar. \u00a0Turns out I’ve got a lot more work than I thought I did. \u00a0Because of that, I decided to start work on Genesis Earth 4.0<\/em> today.<\/p>\n

This is the final polish before World Fantasy convention. \u00a0Of all the stuff I’ve written, Genesis Earth<\/em> is the only ms that I feel is ready for me to send to editors\/agents. \u00a0With this draft, I hope to smooth out the writing, make the text more readable–basically, make this book really shine. \u00a0We’ll see if it succeeds.<\/p>\n

It’s kind of nerve-wracking, in some ways, doing this final edit (inasmuch as any edit is “final”). \u00a0Previously, whenever I did a revision, I knew that I had time to come back later and fix anything that I just couldn’t get to. \u00a0Now, this is where it counts. \u00a0The writing has to be perfect.<\/em><\/p>\n

Imagine how horrible it was to find a grammatical mistake on page one. \u00a0I’d forgotten to capitalize the first word of a sentence in the third or fourth paragraph. \u00a0Thankfully, it was the only mistake I saw on that page, but it’s enough to make me nervous about those chapters I sent out to the editors from BYU’s Writers and Illustrators for Young Readers. \u00a0I know how to write–really, I do! \u00a0Please believe me!<\/p>\n

So today, every hour of the day was jam packed with classes, work, homework, and obligatory social activities. \u00a0I only had two hours to write, and in that time, I only wrote about 500 words for Genesis Earth<\/em> (though, to be fair, I’m measuring it by comparing documents and only counting the words that changed). \u00a0Ouch. \u00a0Not sustainable, if I want to finish Genesis Earth<\/em> and Bringing Stella Home<\/em> (I need to change that title) before World Fantasy. \u00a0I made up for it by writing for half an hour just now in Stella,<\/em> but still…<\/p>\n

And this is where I hope I don’t mess things up. \u00a0Every time I’ve tried to juggle two projects at once, I’ve found it very hard to do so. \u00a0It’s something I’ll probably have to learn, if I want to write professionally, but it’s still very hard. \u00a0I hope my writing quality doesn’t suffer because of it.<\/p>\n

If worst comes to worst, I’ll focus on Genesis Earth<\/em> until it’s done to my satisfaction. \u00a0Shouldn’t take more than a couple of weeks, \u00a0even with school. \u00a0But I’m still keeping my goal to finish Stella<\/em> before World Fantasy.<\/p>\n

In unrelated news, in my political philosophy class today, Professor Hancock mentioned Huntington and I said, under my breath, “that guy was so full of crap.” Well, it turns out that Professor Hancock is quite the admirer of Samuel Huntington and his clash of civilizations theory. \u00a0This is going to make class…interesting, to say the least. \u00a0After studying this stuff my entire college career, I really do believe that Huntington’s theories are utterly full of crap.<\/p>\n

Oh, and I had a great idea for a comic: Plato’s Republic, as a cartoon! \u00a0Okay, maybe I’m just a geek, but seriously, if it were done well, it could \u00a0be really, REALLY cool. \u00a0Really cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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