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"There's a reason it's called a ROUGH draft," I sigh, creating a keysmash with my forehead.
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The world doesn’t need another perfect writer. It needs your story.
Being a writer is doubting the draft and still returning to it.
You read it. You question it. You briefly consider deleting the entire document.
And then you open it again the next day.
Doubt isn’t a sign to quit. It’s part of the craft.
If writing is a choice, then returning is also a choice.
No one forces you to sit back down. You do it because the story still matters.
Not because it’s easy. Because you decided it would.
You hit “The End” feeling like a legend… "Then edits hit you like a plot twist 😭
To be honest, how many drafts did your last book take?
Do you have a WIP?
My first draft ended up being 151K words, when I want it to be more around 90K, and so I was pretty worried that I’d really struggle to cut down on the word count that much
But now that I’ve started rereading the draft to make notes on what I need to edit, I’ve been pleasantly surprised to find whole chapters that can be cut out. It’s weirdly satisfying to just drop massive chunks of the book
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After planning all my story beforehand and having now written about a third part of it, I'm worried that the full work is going to be about a billion words long.
I try to not over explain everything but, man, Tolkien was so right: describing the landscape is one of the greatest pleasures of my life.
Book Publishing Resources
Well, since a few people said they were interested and/or that posting about it on here occasionally was a decent idea, here we go!
I'm MC Calvi, a freelance editor specializing in self-help, psychology, spirituality, paganism, workbooks, and LGBTQ books.
You can find out more about me at my website, where I also offer free twenty-minute book/publishing consultations, in addition to regular editing services.
I am also now offering some pay-what-you-can resources on my website and on Gumroad. I'm committed to offering pay-what-you-can resources because the odds are already so stacked against marginalized authors, and publishing shouldn't be pay to win.
I have two new booklets I'm actually super happy with! They both draw on my eight years of experience in the publishing industry to give authors a leg up.
If you’re trying to find a publisher for a nonfiction book, you almost certainly need a book proposal. But book proposals are one of those e
There are a million resources out there about how to write and publish a book—but of course, that doesn’t mean that all those resources are
And now, back to our regularly scheduled programming as I hit "publish" on another good news post!
