The Goblin Emperor: first draft finished
Jan. 31st, 2010 04:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
truepenny108,600 words, and the draft is done except for that troublesome scene in the middle.
Now, this is a first draft, which means it still needs a lot of work. The worldbuilding is patchy in places and drafty in others, I suspect the pacing of one of the subplots is completely fubar, and the language is not as consistent as I would like it to be.
But these are all problems which can be fixed; in point of fact, they're what a second draft is for. And doubtless, my editor and my valiant beta readers,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
matociquala and mirrorthaw, will identify other problems that I myself cannot see. But that's also okay. That's how it's supposed to work.
Writing, thanks be to all the powers, is not a performance art.
And I will meet my deadline with something that isn't a complete travesty.
This does, in fact, call for frog.
Now, this is a first draft, which means it still needs a lot of work. The worldbuilding is patchy in places and drafty in others, I suspect the pacing of one of the subplots is completely fubar, and the language is not as consistent as I would like it to be.
But these are all problems which can be fixed; in point of fact, they're what a second draft is for. And doubtless, my editor and my valiant beta readers,
matociquala and mirrorthaw, will identify other problems that I myself cannot see. But that's also okay. That's how it's supposed to work.Writing, thanks be to all the powers, is not a performance art.
And I will meet my deadline with something that isn't a complete travesty.
This does, in fact, call for frog.
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Date: 2010-01-31 11:09 pm (UTC)good luck with that second draft.
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Date: 2010-02-01 02:33 am (UTC)And thank heavens indeed that it isn't a performance art.
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