It\u2019s Wednesday and I\u2019m only getting to The Weekly Brew today!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019ve been sick for over a week, and just when I think I\u2019m getting better, it continues to linger. But, I\u2019ve still been able to get some work done on book revisions. I only have 2 chapters left<\/strong>, and then – the Dreaded Synopsis<\/strong>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n My fellow authors will know why this fills me with such dread. It\u2019s so hard to distill a book down into a page or two (and don\u2019t even get me started on book blurbs!). But then to make those few pages compelling enough to hopefully sell your book to an agent or publisher? It truly is its own art form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I think getting at least a bare bones draft down will help. And I\u2019m so ready to put this book aside! I mean I love it\u2026don\u2019t get me wrong. But this book has taken me a long time. Longer than I expected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I think I shared this before, but here\u2019s the timeline of this novel (all are non-consecutive days, since I didn\u2019t work on the book every day):<\/p>\n\n\n\n I know it looks a bit wonky. 87 days to draft between Feb. To Dec 2024? From April to July 2024, I only worked on the book 4 days<\/strong> each month. It was right after my Mom passed. I\u2019d open Scrivener, but do nothing more than scroll around before closing it again. I finally got back to it in the fall, and I\u2019ve slowly been pecking away at these revisions between various other projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019m not sure how productive this method is LOL! If I\u2019d focus on one book at a time, I\u2019d have been done a lot quicker, but sometimes our brains disagree. It\u2019s easy to say I know I can write 5k or revise two chapters a day. But that doesn\u2019t mean it always works out that way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Having said that\u2026I can see the finish line in sight. I love this book, even if it\u2019s a little bittersweet, given the circumstances of writing it. But I can\u2019t wait to be finished so I can send it out into the world and find it a home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Weekly Brew, where I share the tumultuous path to writing and revising my latest book<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":9751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,448],"tags":[680],"class_list":["post-9750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-on-writing","category-the-weekly-brew","tag-the-weekly-brew"],"yoast_head":"\n\n