My first piece of advice is to put it aside.
I say for 3-6 months if
you can. Yes, writers who just finished your NaNoWriMo novel of 50,000 words
put your precious book baby a way for 3- 6 months.
Congratulation! You wrote
50,000 words in a 30 days! I'm telling you don't jump right into rewrite.
Personally, I think it's a quick way to hit burnout if you
jump right into rewrite after finishing the first draft.
If you think you can't stand to be away from your precious
for 3-6 months try a month.
I'm working on my 4th draft (I think ) of my NaNoWriMo novel
from 2016. I finished the 3rd draft in October. So I put in a way for 2 months.
The first time was 3 months, but I didn't write 50,000 words that November. It
took me 3 months to finish writing it. That was my second time to try to write
the same story idea. And I tried to rewrite it that July.
Key word here is tried.
I'm not a fast writer.
I think I've been working on this same
story idea for 3 - 4 years. I happened to like what I wrote in November of
2016.
So first thing to do is to put aside that story. My advice is to
work on something else. I know it will be hard but it'll be worth it.
Next post will be about what I discovered about my novel after re-reading it after 2 months.
I afraid you're right. I should have put my novel from this NaNoWriMo away too... But I just really want my first novel to be finished published.
ReplyDeleteI guess i need to change a lot after some reads have read it...
But: I'm working on a new probier already. Just couldn't stop writing ;)
And there is a draft on my laptop which is about seven years old - i'll edit it, when I finished the current project.
Yours,
Tabea
I'm thinking about working on some of my old projects too.
ReplyDeleteI just noticed that I noticed more of the plot holes and problems after I let the novel sit for a while. That's why I advised putting its aside.