Wed 9 Jun 2010
Wow, seemed like much longer
Posted by PJ under drafts, novels, venus in transit, writing
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I always put a date in the filename when I start a new draft of a novel as a convenient reference for when I started, then tend to gloss over them and ignore them as irrelevant. I just looked at the date on the file for the first draft of Venus in Transit: June 26, 2009. That means I spent just about a year on the damned thing. I would have sworn I was at least at the year and a half mark. It seemed interminable. It was a longer time span than other recent novels have taken to produce a first draft, and it was interminable, but dang. I’m surprised.
Oh, and I was able to leave the draft alone for one whole day in order to fix up and post a short story I wrote about a month ago. I woke up this morning itching to do the read-through on Venus.
I apparently have my writing Jones back.
Talk to me again when I’m halfway through the read-through. My attitude may have altered somewhat.
