Progress

Well the second edit of the book Cherry Picking is going really well. I am up to chapter 17 now but more excitingly my wife (being the first person to read it yet) has just started reading the work now, as I managed to print out the first 16 chapters yesterday!

So I'm really excited to have got to this stage - her early thoughts are what I could hope for in the book. Over the next few weeks there will be some other people who I'm getting to read the work, so now its really the test time - will it make it or won't it! If I can't captivate these people who know me (and therefore have more reason to want to read it than the average person) then it'll be hard to expect others too.

So progress on the editing front and process in general. At last!!

Let the editing begin

I finally finished the first draft in the first week of January. It came in at around 115,000 which I am happy with as a starting point.

I've now started the editing process which I am maybe four weeks into? Today I got up to chapter 9. I am finding that I am not changing major chunks of it, just checking for errors and making sure it is consistent. The first 6 chapters or so had been written up to about three years ago I think so that's a long time for things to change.

I was really looking forward to this phase of things, though at the moment with the majority of the way still to go it is a little hard going. Once I get to about chapter 20 I guess the end is in sight so that should motivate me enough to press on for the finish.

If I could get it done by around March that would leave a good amount of time for the next stage of things to get done before the summer, which is still when I would like to have something ready to send to an agent and/or publisher.

So things press on. Progress is slow but moving along.