Lock Down Progress

by Victoria Whithear
3rd September 2020

I finished a first draft of a novel during lock down but went way over budget on the word count and now have a very heavy editing job on my hands. How did you do? Did you find it easy to write when you had the time or did you procrastinate? I'm not saying I didn't. And I obviously wasn't paying attention to structure or it wouldn't have got away from me like it did. Novels are hard! But I love the pay-off of a shiny new first draft ready for the real work of editing. Now I just need to get locked down again to edit it!

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I was lucky - furloughed for 3 months so I, too, managed 40k to finish a first draft. But rather than start editing I wrote 20k of another story. It's sitting down for hours to write a lot of words regularly that I struggle with - short-burst editing ought to be easier to find time for.

And then I was fortunate enough to acquire a new horse, completely out of the blue and for an absolute song - that's not like me at all.

It must be that damned witchdoctor! :D

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