If you aren't aware already, I have been working on my first book over the past year. Every night I pour a little more time and energy into the manuscript. So far it is progressing well. My goal is to have this book published. Not self-published, but actually published by a publisher. I've self-published before and I might do so again, but I want to test the waters in the publishing industry. I want to put the name of a publisher on my resume.
With that in mind, I've decided to make every Friday "Book Update Day". Every Friday I will give an update as to where I am in the writing/editing/publishing process - at least as far as I can say.
Book Status:
Finished the second draft. I re-wrote the book.
Pages: 138 - 11 font, Calibri
Word Count: 61,737
Next: Need to re-write the intro and Chapter 1. I need to work on the "how did we get here?" part of the story.
Received positive feedback from a friend who read the draft. So that's a really good thing.
Meanwhile, a few writing links that have motivated me this week:
Interview with "The Sandlot" director, narrator (SB Nation)
WRITERS ON WRITING; Easy on the Adverbs, Exclamation Points and Especially Hooptedoodle by Elmore Leonard (NY Times)
