Deborah J. Ross

[deborahjross]

Jim C. Hines posted an interview with himself on the national write-a-novel-in-a-month challenge, with such wonderful questions I've borrowed them and supplied my own answers.

What are you doing National Novel Writing Month this year, Deborah?
Cheering on my friends. I'll be starting the first round of editorial revisions for my fantasy trilogy, The Seven-Petaled Shield. Revising is a very different process from drafting. I find that drafting goes better when I do it quickly, so I don't get caught in second-guessing myself or editing as I write. Both are recipes for disaster and paralysis. Revising, on the other hand, does not reliably produce any measurable result in terms of pages or words. I dive into it and call it quits every day when my brain won't function any longer.

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Deborah J. Ross

Comments

[kateelliott.livejournal.com]

Finally! Is the whole thing done? How is it going to be published? (ie close together? year apart? what format?)

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

What you say, very much. Especially the finish version!

[deborahjross.livejournal.com]

YESSS! It's done, and we're beginning revisions of all 3 books together. No pub date yet, but they'll come out close together. I will be blathering all over the 'nets when I know more, like dates and formats.

PS Thank you again for your input. I'm very pleased with how it turned out!

[deborahjross.livejournal.com]

We're so hard on ourselves, and once we've completed a novel or five, we don't give ourselves credit for what an achievement that is.

I'm of the opinion that any cause for celebration is to be seized up and shared!