This is a short blog post. I don’t want to tempt fate.
I received back an excellent report from my mentor. By some miracle I’ve pulled off all the things we were looking at.
He says the opening is now a quantum leap from where we started. All the problems with overwriting and empathy and structure and show v tell are no longer there.
I am happy with the first 20,000 odd words now and so is he.
So, short of a bit of copy editing, spell checking and so on I can say that I won’t touch any of the first part of the book again before I begin the submission process.
What a great feeling.
I’m going to stop typing now and crack on with the bit in the middle that I’m working on before I tempt fate.
This is the section I’m submitting for my 6th and final extract, so I want to really put some graft in on it.
Fingers crossed.
