First draft of book two completed
Amazing what you can do when you’re awake all night listening in disbelief to the US election and then decide to dedicate the day to writing in order to escape thinking about ‘the really, really scary thing’...
Anyway, the first draft of the next Barclay & MacDonald novel, provisionally entitled Bad For Good, was finished today. It’s around 54k words, which translates into approximately 250 paperback-sized pages.
As with When She Was Bad the first draft is very, very rough, and the hard work will come with the second and subsequent drafts where the story is refined, events and characters are shuffled about and the majority of words are reworked big time. My first effort had five drafts (six if you count the typo corrections after the initial release) and I think this will require similar work.
I’m aiming to publish it as both a paperback and eBook on May 1st 2017.
Anyway, the first draft of the next Barclay & MacDonald novel, provisionally entitled Bad For Good, was finished today. It’s around 54k words, which translates into approximately 250 paperback-sized pages.
As with When She Was Bad the first draft is very, very rough, and the hard work will come with the second and subsequent drafts where the story is refined, events and characters are shuffled about and the majority of words are reworked big time. My first effort had five drafts (six if you count the typo corrections after the initial release) and I think this will require similar work.
I’m aiming to publish it as both a paperback and eBook on May 1st 2017.
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