(Cloned from LJ)
Finally, it took me a very long time… but I’ve done the final edit for Book One … and first draft of the associated 14 page synopsis. It’s been a long time coming.. over a year of fidgeting because I didn’t know how to write a good synopsis (I still don’t know if it’s right)… and about six weeks of at least an hour a day of actual work… but it’s done! :D
So… next on the list of todos is to attempt to make the best damn synopsis that I can write. And it’s only 15 pages long… granted, that’s at single line spacing and I’ll have to condense it to double line spacing and 14 pages.. but.. the hard bit is over. Editing 30 pages of double line spaced synopsis has got to be easier than 230-odd pages of novel. Then, once that’s done to satisfaction I will have to write a brief covering letter, and then.. then the scary bit: Submission to Baen Publishing.
Once the submission is in I won’t be able to submit to any other publisher until I hear back from them. So I’ll have a long time to see if I can find an Agent, source other publishers that accept unsolicited submissions via the internet and finish all the blog stories and website data. But, after the submission I’ll start on the first history story for the blog stories and work on Book Two. Perhaps if my brain has room I might even finally start writing the first section of Book Three.. which currently doesn’t have a good catchy title yet.. I have a draft title.. but I don’t really like it too much because it sounds like it’s simply a book about what happens after book two.. which.. I guess it is.. but I write each of my books with the intention that they could hold their own as a single novel.. so here’s hoping that is the case when I start writing book three… anywho…
I is tired and worded out now… going to bed…
Congrats, ‘Ara! That’s exciting :)
Wraith
(sees Clodaus’ handiwork and passes out)
Also, we aren’t ignoring her, I personally am commenting in another area. ;)
You?re a real deep tinhekr. Thanks for sharing.