I have less than 50 pages in copyedits left, so I’ll finish those today. Actually I have to finish those today because that baby is going back to Bantam tomorrow. 
I did manage to sneak in some writing yesterday too. Got 10 pages in because I couldn’t not write something. Progress is progress, ya know, and the deadline is breathing down my neck.
For those who asked about Fast Draft, it’s the creation of author Candace Havens. She gives workshops on how to do it, but basically it’s write a book in two weeks. Here’s the link to her site and workshop loop. I’m just using what I learned, which is basically write the damn book, turn off the internal editor and get the pages down. Trust me, it works. If I hadn’t been slammed with copyedits last week I’d have done a lot more, but I still managed a crapload of pages last week while juggling copyedits on top of that.
I’m really bad at shutting down the editor. I re-read everything and can’t go forward until I’ve perfected what is on the page. It’s worked hell on my writing. I met a lady who has two hats for this problem. She has a ball cap and a funky beach style hat. When she’s an editor she wears the ball cap to crack the whip. When the hat is funky it’s to remind her to use the creative part of her brain only. I bought the hats; I just haven’t tried it yet.
by Scooper February 20th, 2007 at 9:39 pmThanks for the link, Jaci! I have a first draft that is causing me problems and maybe this will help.
by Christine d'Abo February 21st, 2007 at 8:28 am