I’ve decided I love revision after all. I’m rewriting CT into first person because the biggest complaint I’ve gotten on it is a lack of voice/description. I am much more pleased with it now; it did feel flat before. I worked on the first 50p yesterday. I was up at 4:30 because I couldn’t sleep, finally around 6AM I sat down and opened Word. I had to shower and eat breakfast, so I quit around 8AM, and then Toady and I went to play roller hockey with some friends. We got home around one, and I went straight back to work.
Until ten pm.
I slept in until 6:30AM today. *G* But managed to go back over the back half of those 50p because I knew mushy-brain would mean I missed a lot of stuff. Sure enough, tons of sentences like “I clenched her fists,” or “Ronnie licked my finger.” Well, that’s awkward.
Now I’m getting ready for church at 9:30AM. That seems so late to start a day! Ha. I am loving this rewrite and can’t wait to query the new version to agents I haven’t tried yet. The query I have needs a tiny bit of tweaking but this rewrite isn’t changing anything in the plot, just adding in voice and depth.
I’m also going back over an older MSS of mine and getting some beta reads on it; it’s better than I had thought at the time, but does need work. I want to do that work.
Who knew? I declare this the Half a Year of Revisions, and I am in love with them, even though they are blood-sucking hard things, they are wonderful.
Or maybe it’s 7:45 in the morning on a Sunday, and I’ve finally snapped.