Hey Gang! Editing is hard work.
It’s only beginning with this rewrite, but my wheels are spinning, the fingers are flying across the chiclet style keys of my laptop, and I am feeling my character Sarah Mckinney, becoming more a part of this story. Her voice will be heard and instead of this novel only coming from the point of view of Gabriel Hart, you will truly understand Sarah now as well. This will be both of their stories.
I’m toying with the idea of giving you readers a preview of what’s to come from Sarah. Probably not the next post, but the following, I will give you a taste of what goes on inside of Sarah McKinney’s head.
Coming to the decision of writing both perspectives was not as difficult as I thought it would be. Actually, since I’ve written these people for the last two years and feel like I know them intimately, (writers will understand), I realized that it was the only logical way to go. I only wish I did it sooner.
Deadlines are helpful.
I’m giving myself a deadline for having the entire book revised and ready for second editing by mid May. That gives me close to 6 weeks to get it all done. I think it’s doable. If I set my sites on this being the case, I hope to send off my manuscript in June to the agent that was interested at the San Francisco Writers Conference. Just using the Law of Attraction, and Power of Intention. You simply gotta believe.
That’s it for this week folks. I will keep you all up to speed as I’ve promised and in the very near future, some of Sarah’s pages will be on pattidienerwrites.com for you to see first hand.
And as Stephen King would say, “When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you are done, you have to step back and look at the forest.”
