So, I've finished round 1 of revisions, which is basically when I reread everything to figure out what's wrong - like where I need to move material around, cut material, add material, that sort of thing.
Then I made a little document map (scribbled, on notebook paper) about what I need to fix.
Now the hard part - fixing it. I'm supposed to be done by Halloween. Ha. I've got about 4 chapters to add and 2 to rework - it could be done, but depends entirely on how well the children sleep and my emotional involvement with So You Think You Can Dance - which is currently low. So, that's a good thing. Yay for silver linings.
After this is round 3 for line edits of everything, then beta readers, then round 4, then hopefully querying by January. And I do, truly, love querying, so it's a great way to beat the post-Christmas blues.
Let's hope all the good dancers get cut soon so I can focus. 
PS Public Service Announcement. Don't google images for "revision" - surgeries have revisions too, apparently...
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Good luck! But I have a question.
October 27, 2009 at 8:43 AMwhy do you love querying. I feel like a child who can't speak much less write when I sit down to write query letters. You are the first person I've ever heard that actually liked it. So naturally, I'm extremely curious.
Leona - it's like Christmas Eve - all the anticipation that the next email to come through will be a request for a partial or a full or something even better. ;)
Whenever I get stuck while I'm writing, I usually tinker with my query, so it's pretty much ready to go when the book's done. Then I get to research agents - LOVE doing that - and daydream that one of them will be *my* agent. :) And at the same time I'm starting a brand new bright and shiny project that I'm not sick of yet. All around good stuff!
I won't say that rejection doesn't sting - it does, but usually only when I have a full out, or get a really cutting remark. But it's no worse than what I tell myself while I'm writing.
October 27, 2009 at 8:58 AM
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