My esteemed friend, I have been making edits on my book. It is a Sisyphean task if there ever was one, as soon as I finishing marking up a chapter with my red pen and my neon highlighter, I will get a bright idea about how I should change something in the chapter before to make it "flow" better and tighter and all those things that you want your book to be, not some sort of bloated beast, washed up to shore. It's quite ironic, because all these years, I have been blithely advising people to stop “fiddling” with their books and just wrap it up already, coming from the smug position that I did that all my writing was unmitigated genius and barely needed a few passes with a red pen to make it amazing. Luckily, I changed my position quite soon after my first book (god, so many edits) but I still did not have more than one or two looks at it myself before sending it on to the waiting editor at the publishing house. Then, as the editor worked on her feedback, I worked as well, and my finished books are only as tight as they are because they had two sets of eyes looking over them. God, I hate editing my own work. My eyes just glaze over as I read my prose over and over again. I have about a zillion new ideas for different books which I want to begin writing immediately. However, this time, for the first time since I have been published, over ten years ago, I am going to be submitting a full manuscript to publishing houses instead of being signed on in advance of the MS being written (I don't know who's going to buy it yet, but one hopes for good things) and so I am clutching it to my bosom and refusing to let it go. I do have to eventually release it, however, so I'm giving myself another couple of weeks of tweaking before I send it into the world.
The Internet Personified: My Indian identity
The Internet Personified: My Indian identity
The Internet Personified: My Indian identity
My esteemed friend, I have been making edits on my book. It is a Sisyphean task if there ever was one, as soon as I finishing marking up a chapter with my red pen and my neon highlighter, I will get a bright idea about how I should change something in the chapter before to make it "flow" better and tighter and all those things that you want your book to be, not some sort of bloated beast, washed up to shore. It's quite ironic, because all these years, I have been blithely advising people to stop “fiddling” with their books and just wrap it up already, coming from the smug position that I did that all my writing was unmitigated genius and barely needed a few passes with a red pen to make it amazing. Luckily, I changed my position quite soon after my first book (god, so many edits) but I still did not have more than one or two looks at it myself before sending it on to the waiting editor at the publishing house. Then, as the editor worked on her feedback, I worked as well, and my finished books are only as tight as they are because they had two sets of eyes looking over them. God, I hate editing my own work. My eyes just glaze over as I read my prose over and over again. I have about a zillion new ideas for different books which I want to begin writing immediately. However, this time, for the first time since I have been published, over ten years ago, I am going to be submitting a full manuscript to publishing houses instead of being signed on in advance of the MS being written (I don't know who's going to buy it yet, but one hopes for good things) and so I am clutching it to my bosom and refusing to let it go. I do have to eventually release it, however, so I'm giving myself another couple of weeks of tweaking before I send it into the world.