{"id":763,"date":"2009-06-10T22:05:55","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T05:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=763"},"modified":"2009-06-10T22:05:55","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T05:05:55","slug":"bringing-stella-home-11-is-finished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/bringing-stella-home-11-is-finished\/","title":{"rendered":"Bringing Stella Home 1.1 is finished"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few minutes ago, I finished the rough draft of Bringing Stella Home.<\/em> This is my third completed novel. Huzzah!<\/p>\n

It needs a ton <\/em>of work, too…there’s no way I’m going to let this thing see the light of day, not until I finish the second draft.<\/p>\n

In fact, I should probably set down tomorrow and start listing all the plot holes that need to be fixed in the revision, before I forget them all. It feels like there are dozens and dozens of holes. Not a good feeling.<\/p>\n

Still, IT’S DONE!!! All that worrying and fretting and gtalk rants at Charlie along the lines of “GAH!! THIS NOVEL SUCKS!!!” have paid off, and I’ve got a draft I can work with! Inshallah, it should be downhill from here.<\/p>\n

I remember when I wrote Genesis Earth<\/em>, how all throughout the process of writing the rough draft, I felt that the work was terrible. And it’s true–the rough draft needed a lot of work. However, I think revising comes easier to me than drafting, and the process of writing the second draft was much, much smoother and more enjoyable than the first one.<\/p>\n

So, what I have now is a hunk of rock roughly in the shape of a face. I can’t quite tell if it’s th face of a man, a woman, or a monkey, but it’s a face nonetheless. That’s better than an unworked block of stone, at least. Maybe someday it will be a decent work of art, if my hands don’t slip and I shave the nose off by accident.<\/p>\n

I’ll let this draft sit for a few weeks, maybe a month, then pick it up again for the revision. In the meantime, on to other things.<\/p>\n

And really, as rough as this draft may be, it feels awesome to finally have it finished. Reality sets in tomorrow, when once again I find myself staring at a blank page.<\/p>\n

Bringing Stella Home 1.1<\/h3>\n

mss pages:<\/strong> 416
\n words:<\/strong> 118,596
\n file size:<\/strong> 791 KB
\n chapters:<\/strong> 21
\n start date:<\/strong> 6 May 2009
\n end date: <\/strong>10 June 2009<\/p>\n

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POSTSCRIPT:<\/strong> Hahaha! MS Word just popped up a dialogue box saying “there are too many spelling and grammar errors to underline them all” or something like that! HILARIOUS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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