Saturday; the new novel...

[ozarque]

I have to re-write the new novel, in longhand, from start to finish -- which will take a while. It does have to be done in longhand, and there's no way to speed that up. I need to provide a great deal more information for the readers about the Brethandi culture and surroundings.

Comments

[muffyjo]

This is a member of your cheering squad...Go you! Go you!! You're crafting something with words. It will be beautiful. You have a knack for the words, if you say they need re-writing, then they do. Huzzah!

[archangelbeth]

That's... an impressive amount of work! (My mom wrote a first draft in longhand, of a romance novel, long ago, with me reading each page as it came off the press desk, so I've seen it happen!)

Don't let your hand cramp up too horribly!

[dcseain]

Your wordcrafting will make the effort well worth-while. Take care your hands don't cramp :)

[queenmaggie]

Funny, I just read some advice from a young current poet today that he gives to new grads...and one thing he kept saying was do it by hand. Writing on a machine forgoes the tactile quality of creating one's words, and it you want to make something, then he feels the need to make an actual thing: the MS. It was an interesting take on such things.

[sturgeonslawyer]

Well, the good news is that you have a finish to go from the start to, yes? That is an achievement right there.

Um. Why does it have to be longhand?