Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Novel Completion Schedule Part Deux

Crazy G.M. editing schedule:

Chapter 11 – Thursday, January 14
Chapter 12 – Friday, January 15
Chapter 13 – Saturday, January 16

Chapter 14 – Monday/ Tuesday, January 18
Chapter 15 – Tuesday/ Wednesday, January 20
Chapter 16 – Wednesday/Thursday, January 21
Chapter 17 – Friday, January 22

Chapters 18, 19 – By Tuesday, January 26

January 27-January 31 – Edit, revise, fix, cut, update word count of my query letter. Make sure all loose ends are tied up in 18 and 19. See if I can find better, more fun phrasing for “I smiled” and boring, repetitive tidbits. See if I can repeat the magic of other lines that I love. Get all chapters as clean as 1-4.

Does Chapter 13 make you cry? How bout 19? No? They should, dammit. Revise until they do.
February 1 – Send out chapters 1-3 to interested agent. Send out query to others. Cross fingers. Repeat.