The First Draft

Dear Shell,

Well it is official. My first draft of Dragon Eye is done. It's very rough and needs a lot of work. I have a couple of plot holes that need to be filled (they were from the Nano days where we were supposed to just write and write and write without worrying about editing). I also have a small problem with mixing up past and present tense in certain areas. But nothing should be too hard to fix.

So my next step is to let it sit a few days. Just walk away from it and work on something else. Then I'll go back, with a notebook beside me, and I'll read the whole novel from start to finish. Then I'll take my comments/suggestions that I wrote in my notebook as I read through, and start to fix the problem areas.

I think the storyline is pretty good. But it could be much better.

After I get the second, or maybe third draft finished, then I'll print out a copy to share with someone to read in its entirety. See if the story catches and holds their attention, see if something needs work.

After it's finished? Then I'll start working on my queries and synopsis, and start looking for an agent. And... work on the next novel in progress!

Shell