I'm halfway through my second draft. I successfully completed NaNoWriMo last November and even went so far as to finish a complete first draft. So now I'm stuck in Purgatory, otherwise known as editing and rewriting.
It's been a love hate relationship with the Novel. It keeps complaining, that I all I want to do is change it, I don't like it for what it is, why can't I just be happy. Then, when I update a few passages, rewrite a few paragraph, add a page or two; it seems to like what I'm doing. Of course, there are the changes it doesn't like, and off we go with the whining and complaining. It gets so bad that I have to walk away, set it aside, work on something else, actually see my family for a change.
That never goes over well.
It starts with flowers and apologies, then the never ending stream of phone calls begging me to take it back, it will do anything I want it to do, it trusts me to realize Its full potential. And like any good chump, I go back for more. Sure it all starts well, but then I get stuck, or nit pick certain parts, and we start the cycle all over again.
In the meantime, the Novel is starting to talk about publication.
The conversation started just like any other, I've been working on it for a while, where do I see this all going? Then it starts bugging me about commitment, it want's to have my name, wear my book cover. If I hedge even the slightest, it accuses me that I'm ashamed of it, that I wouldn't want to be seen in public with it. I never take it anywhere, do anything special.
So now, I'm online researching publishers, editors, agents. It wants the whole shebang, large publishing house, custom book jacket (defiantly nothing off the rack), huge release party, review in the Times. When I first started this Novel, it was meant to be just a quick one month stand. It seemed as though we wanted the same things, a little fun, a little prose, an adjective or two, now it has me wrapped around it's binding and I'm hooked. I can't walk away now, especially now that it's telling me that it's expecting a sequel!
Anyone know a good place to publish a novel?
