The Vase - Not so Done

Went back and began rereading my second novel, THE VASE. Just as I've said before, whenever I reread these manuscripts, I just can't seem to help making additional revisions. I've read about it on other writers' blogs, so I know it's not just me. At this point it's mostly just a word or two changed or rearranging a sentence - minor stuff. Certainly nothing major at this point. Since I've already sent it to the Library of Congress for a Copyright, I hope nothing major gets changed. I don't believe it will.

It happened with KILLER OF KILLERS. I finished it, revised it, and before I sent fulls to agents who requested it, I went ahead and copyrighted it. But then, as I explained in earlier posts, I ended up making some major revisions, and so I had to resend the changed version for another copyright.

As I understand it, you don't need to resend for another copyright if you make minor revisions, as I'm doing now for The Vase. But if you make some major changes, say, adding new chapters, for example, then you do need to resend it. That's what happened with KOK.

Of course, agents say you really don't need to copyright your material in the submission stage. They say no one is going to "steal" your ideas. But I think it's wiser to do it, anyway. It's easy, because you can do it online, it's cheap, about 30 bucks, and it takes the LOC about six months to finally get it done, but it's retroactive. Meaning the copyright is valid from the point they receive your material, not just when you get that certificate from them in the mail.