I’m back!!
I know I disappeared on here for a lo-o-o-ong time. It was for a good reason, though. I had a baby!
It turns out that being an expectant mother for 9 months and then being a new parent immediately after that is wonderful, but also busy and exhausting, so during that time I took a break from updating the writing blog and decided to just focus on the important stuff–my baby, and the writing itself.
During the past year, this is what I accomplished:
- Finished the revisions on Draft 3 of HYBRID. This new version became Draft 4.
- Did more world building.
- Revised Draft 4. This version became Draft 5.
- Did even more world building.
- Revised Draft 5. A lot.
- My current MS word count: ???????? Who knows. I’d guess still around 65,000 words. I’ll have to check Scrivener during my son’s next naptime.
I am now in the process of polishing Draft 5 at the sentence level. This polished draft will become Draft 6. Once it’s done, I will be at a point where I don’t know how else to improve the manuscript (though I will be the first to admit that it is far from perfect!).
Which means that it will be time to proceed to the Querying Stage.
That’s too scary to think about though, so for now, my updates will focus on the task at hand: polishing! Which is my favorite part of the revision process.