I've always said that the revising phase of writing a book is the most fun, but I might adjust that to saying the editing phase is the most fun. Why? They are related, of course, but during the editing stage you're working with another person--an editor--and that means you're book is being published. Yeah, I know some writers hire an editor to edit their manuscript before it's been sold. But normally, a writer has his or her manuscript edited after it's been accepted by some publishing house. It was during the editing of my first two books I learned so much about writing a novel. And since then I consider myself a much improved novelist.
I applied what I learned into both of those first two books during the editing phase, and I applied all that I learned in my next two books in the revising phase. And for every book after that I'll be applying what I learned in the first drafts. Like I'm doing now for my fifth book, Second Chance, which is coming along nicely. I'm very near finished. At this time I'm wrapping up the climax of the story, so all that's left is the denouement. That won't take more than a week. Looks like I'll meet my objective, which was to finish the book during the course of the school year. And the school year is over in about a week.
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