I just realized partially through my reply in the other thread that it's not January anymore! So I'm starting a new thread with a link to the old & then my original post.
Noveling in January
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Well, it's actually kind of a cliché (I feel) in urban fantasy that there have to be dead bodies involved before it becomes important enough for the main characters to care about. So it's actually a plot point for me that they are trying to solve things before anybody gets killed (oh, the bad guys will die, but not this early
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Congrats on finishing!
I have always really like Stephen King's advice on this, which is to let the draft sit for awhile (I think he actually prints his out, but that can really ruin your ink budget, can't it?), work on something else perhaps, and then come back to it fresh and read through it with new eyes, correcting as you go.
Personally, I am hand-writing my first draft, so I'll be revising it as I type it into the computer.
I went to Barnes & Noble today & bought a German/English dictionary to carry around with me. The MC's magic words are in German (because she's partially of German descent), but I don't remember the language well enough. Now I have something portable; a nice alternative to trying to look things up on my phone in the last seconds before class starts.
I also managed to not buy any writing magazines, because I know myself well enough to realize that I would use reading up on how to write as an excuse to NOT write.
Noveling in January
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Personally, I am hand-writing my first draft, so I'll be revising it as I type it into the computer.
I went to Barnes & Noble today & bought a German/English dictionary to carry around with me. The MC's magic words are in German (because she's partially of German descent), but I don't remember the language well enough. Now I have something portable; a nice alternative to trying to look things up on my phone in the last seconds before class starts.
I also managed to not buy any writing magazines, because I know myself well enough to realize that I would use reading up on how to write as an excuse to NOT write.