I’ll be back later this week to give some notes on my awesome book signing event. Until then, take a look at my new post over on the Phoenix Publishing and Book Promotion Group blog!
Phoenix Publishing & Book Promotion
You’ve Written a Book! Now What? : The Ins-and-Outs of Hiring an Editor
by Shanan Winters
There’s a moment in time when an author puts the final punctuation on the last sentence of a manuscript.In that brief second, the writer feels elation, excitement, a touch of fear, and maybe even some twinges of sadness. She breathes a huge sigh of relief, and in the next moment, she inhales reality.
The show is far from over.
Just because a manuscript is finished, it’s far from being done. As an author, you would never take a first draft and push it out to the publishing channels.
My husband worked with a woman who used to talk about projects in terms of “doneness.”There’s done – meaning that the bulk of the work is fleshed out. In writing terms, this would be first draft complete.
Then there is done-done. This second stage…
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A very nice article! I loved the term you used -“doneness” 🙂 Will have to implement the ‘doneness’ idea in my writing.
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LOL yes, because even when you’re done-done-done, are you really ever “done”? I think not. It’s just varying degrees of doneness 😉
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