Well the revision process is now properly underway. Perhaps some of you more experienced authors out there can tell me how long this is likely to take. I currently have around 150k words and its taken me the best part of a week to do one chapter, albeit a lot of new writing in it. Hopefully I will have it finished by the time I fly off to the UK and Europe in September.
Following is my new-ish first chapter, involving some existing descriptions and ideas from what was originally later in the novel, but reworked around new dialogue and made more whimsical. By the way, I don’t intend to bombard you with every chapter from now on but I need to know that I am going in the correct direction (my good old anxiety issues kicking in LOL).
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Words among the tombs
Cello and fiddle throbbed the Green House, tumultuous and passionate. The wizard Verdant P
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A very different genre of fiction from my usual choice. Found your style and content interesting though and look forward to the characters’ development and that of the narrative itself.
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Thank you! 🙂 I hope I don’t disappoint. I feel very amateurish. LOL
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The style reminds me of someone (in a good way), but I can’t seem to understand whom exactly. Maybe even one of the Russian authors I read =)
Overall, it’s an intriguing beginning that mostly poses questions that are hopefully going to be answered later.
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Thankyou so much! 🙂 I just hope that I can keep up a reader’s interest. I must admit that one crucial chapter has me struggling a bit with the pace. But all in all I like what I am writing so far 🙂
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I’d say you should be doing fine when it comes to the reader’s interest!