Re: P/F Crit: Apprentice

Kat R wrote:
Gruff wrote:


I'm sure there are people who can write brilliant books, successful
books without revision, but unless that's the result you get *surely*
it's a good idea to consider it?

I just hate the time it takes to revise as much as I do. I get heartily sick of the book by the time it actually _is_ a book. I want never to see it again--like a relative that comes for a week and stays for a month; I know I'll still be living with it, hearing from it, for a long, long time, but I _DO_ wish it would shove off.

I understand your frustration completely. I've been writing The Looking Glass Club for two and half years now, and I'm only on draft two. I've probably cut more than I've written (125k at the moment); it's a different book to the one I started, but I'm proud of it now. You might remember the pain I was in when I first came across rasfc. It was all down to my expectations about myself. I set out arrogantly thinking I could knock out a novel in nine months to a year and it would be great. Reality had a real good laugh with that one. But I had a breakthrough thanks to conversations on here and just 'got okay' with the limit of my abilities. It's just going to take me as long as it takes and I can actually enjoy the process again now which I'm so happy about. I'd rather spend ten years writing something I'm proud of than knocking out something because I couldn't face the damn thing any more and wanted rid of it. And the book is jammed full of ideas it couldn't have been otherwise because I didn't try to rush it. Who knows what it will be when I finish it finally.

We'll soon find out, I'm sure.


;o)

Gruff

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