I'm used to writing printer-ready magazine stories and non-fiction books, but I've been struggling with novels. My first year of NaNoWriMo was worst (though I wrote two), last year was better (one 82,000 word novel which I'm still revising), and this year went very smoothly. I still have to add several chapters to flesh it out but I think I will have very few revisions to make. The book almost wrote itself.
I hope this bodes well for the future.
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73,408 / 50,000
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Are you going to look into getting it published? If so, where are you sending it?
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Maybe.
My problem is that I'm very lazy right now.
I guess I'm tired of dealing with incompetent editors, and I don't really need the money at this time.
Editing is work for me; writing is not.
I have three other novels sitting around that need one more proofreading and a few fixes to be publishable but I can't get up the energy to do it. (I redid several of my non-fiction books this summer and early fall---second and fifth editions---and that may have wiped me out.)
But I'm in no hurry. Maybe I'll end up publishing them all at once.