Tag: manuscripts

Revision? Is that the same as editing?

April 8, 2010

Once I wrote a first draft for a story.  Then I revised it and it became a second draft.  Then I revised it again and it became the third draft at which point I sent it to a consultancy for a report and it came back and I revised it again.  Sent it back, further revisions.  Then came the invitation to send the all-important first 50 pages with a view to it being called in.  Sent it. More tiny revisions.  Each time it’s like trying to find specs of dandruff on white velvet!!!

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Breaking backs.

January 7, 2010

I think I might have broken the back of the edit.  I have addressed every point the editor reported and now want to print off the ms into hard copy and read it as per a book but with a red pen in hand.  I imagine, that with good luck and a fair wind, I shall have finished and be ready to send it back to London for final comment by the end of next week.  Marketable or not.  Waiting for the answer will be excruciating.

After watching an episode of In The Night Garden, my dose of calm and equilibrium for the evening, I have decided that to escape over the ocean while I wait for an answer is the way to go.  Just me and Upsy Daisy, maybe Iggle Piggle and the Tombliboos,

 

Pinky Ponk

 

all in the Pinky Ponk as it floats on clouds of what seems to be expressed air (farts in more commonplace language).  We shall fly over my little bay outside the window and I shall watch the boats and the gulls, the dolphins and the divers.  We shall fart and dip over Maria Island and return on the crest of a sea-breeze and I shall have ditched my anxiety, like so many farts and noxious ballast, and be ready for as straight an answer as London can give me.