The Edit, Part Four: Summer Check-In

"You can’t solve a dream. It will melt in your hands."

It’s been three months since my last novel update so it’s time for another!

I spent January planning the edit, and from February to now I’ve been steadily editing it. My best guess is that I'm 2/3rds of the way through.

My goal for the next two months is to finish this round of edits, then have my partner review it in September. That way I'll have time to apply her edits and submit it to agents by the end of the year. This will require me going faster this summer compared to before, so I might need to say no to things until I get through it.

The novel has become more focused and more rich, and thankfully not less weird (visions get beamed into a detective's head and messages are hidden in an ancient travel guide!). I am trying hard to make it beautiful. It is difficult for me to hold all its threads in my head and I wish I could just add more RAM to my brain. It’s looking like it will be about 100,000 words long. Ideally by the end of it the reader will want to storm the heavens. I have the feeling that I should be discussing it more publicly, but I am not sure how.

I hope your own adventures are going well!