It's Sunday, time to check in regarding my A Round of Words in 80 Days (ROW80) goals.
Updates...
- Publish Chasing Memories -- Edit #2 is done and back in the hands of my Editor, the lovely Jo Michaels.
- Survive the A to Z Blog Challenge -- Only done through H, so I plan to get through at least K tomorrow.
- Map out the sequel to Chasing Memories - As I was editing this past week, plot points for Book 2 were bombarding me. I have notes everywhere (truly, I think I have written on every piece of scrap paper in my house). This week I plan to organize them and add details.
- Make significant progress on the follow-up to Depression Cookies - The plan is to write two chapters this week.
Note: In April, I am only going to do ROW80 updates on Sundays since I'm posting all the other days for A to Z. In May, I'll be back to Wednesday and Sunday posts.
Hope my ROW80 friends started Round 2 with a bang!
6 comments:
I do several rounds of edits and still wonder if the work is good enough.
I was going to join ROW80 and even wrote a post, but I deleted it since the linky list to join closed. I saw it as fate since I'm doing A to Z this month and doing ROW80 updates on top of that would be stressful.
It's hard to know when enough is enough. I use to think that at one point, it's good just to say 'that's it, let it be', but the last couple weeks, I was faced with a new lesson 'If your gut tells you it could be better, it can.' So, I'm at a loss at the moment on this one.
Never. It's never good enough.
I did a lot of editing last week, so I feel you. After the third or fourth pass, I start to feel like I'm obsessing. That's when I send it out to get proofed. Then I edit one more time.
Anyhoo... good luck with your edits and your writing.
I think you'll always want to add, take away, and change. It's your writer's imagination taking over as you re-read. There comes a point where you must let it go into the world and find its own legs to stand on. :) WRITE ON!
Great goals for this round! I'm excited about your book being almost done. Congrats, Tia!
"When is it good enough?" Yes, exactly. This is why I wish I could afford an editor. Someone outside of myself to partner with me in my process and help me answer this question, as I do for my editing clients. I imagine your editor helps you with this, no?
In my experience so far, Kate C. is right: it's never good enough to suit me because it's never perfect. So the question for me becomes, "How much do I want to invest in this piece?" And then "good enough" becomes an equation of "enough time spent" + "would I feel excited about sharing this with other people?" Luckily I get easily excited these days about sharing my work with other people, even in draft form. =*)
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