The first draft of my book is done and I’ve started on the second draft already.
They reckon when you’re writing a book, you should leave heaps of time between each draft so you can go back to it with a fresh set of eyes.
I couldn’t be f*cked waiting that long but life has a way of forcing us to do things (don’t I know it!). It took me more than a month to get back to it and then a few more weeks were added before I could seriously start writing again. Believe it or not, the advice was write (haha). The longer I left it the more ideas I had about how to tighten the prose and tweak the plot.
So there you go. I was hoping to have the second draft done by the end of this year but it looks like it’ll be sometime in January instead. That only puts me a couple of weeks behind my self-imposed schedule. I like a good challenge, so this is just another one of them.