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Shahnaz Ahmed
@bookishpodcast · 4:53

Persistence pays. Writing a book!

Heck, I may delete that character where I want to add that scene. I may just make that character such a minimal character and or close that character story arc sooner than later, or add that scene in the middle. Or it may be different. So now that I'm thinking about it in retrospect, I'm glad I stopped because in six weeks, once I have distance, I can decide on what I need to do and where I want to go. So. Yeah

How I finished my first half-draft. My thoughts. @rachel @NamelessJournal

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Shahnaz Ahmed
@bookishpodcast · 4:51
That's great. Yeah. So thank you. And I'll keep you all posted on everything. Like the book Where it's Coming and also by mentioning it on swell. It also keeps me accountable to all of you that. Hey, whatever happened to your book? So you can ask me in six weeks or in eight weeks going. Wait. It's been tough six weeks. Where's your book? So there's. That also
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Ramya V
@Ramya · 1:35

Take a bow @bookishpodcast!👏👏👏

Hey, hey. Congratulations on the completion of your very first draft. I can only imagine the immense sense of accomplishment you felt as you Typed out the closing lines of your manuscript. And I know it's a task that's far from over. There's going to be several more rounds of edits and rewrites and some sleepless nights to come. But the hardest part is done. You have a first draft, and that is huge
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Shahnaz Ahmed
@bookishpodcast · 2:21

@NamelessJournal, @bowie

Okay. So today is six weeks from when I put down my I guess, my proverbial pen. But stop typing on my word document, and I'm getting back. And today I am reopening my novel. I'm reading things and I'm going, I don't remember this. Oh, this is good. Let's work on sentence structure here and then forget sentence structure, but it's like, okay, you really need to work on this element of your story
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Ramya V
@Ramya · 2:12
Trust me, I'd say that it is this phase that's somewhat crucial for the manuscript, as now that you've been away from it, your second reading would probably have highlighted possible plot holes or clunkiness in the flow of the narrative, if at all, there are any. Also, I think it's great that you're initially starting off by making a note of your observations before jumping right in and doing the edits right away
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Shahnaz Ahmed
@bookishpodcast · 2:49

@NamelessJournal

This needs to be mentioned so often in the book because this is a theme and that kind of a thing just kind of really. Let's see how it goes. After all. This is round two, so I will not have a draft ready for line edits at the end of this. Maybe I'll have not. Maybe I'll have the second draft of what I will have at the end of this, but I don't think I'll put the second draft away for six weeks
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Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 1:27

Woo hoo!

Congratulations, Shinz, that is huge and I loved what you said about just reminding yourself to work on it piece by piece, because that's definitely something I have to constantly remind myself yourself up is that this happens bit by bit. There's no way to write a novel and just one sitting as far as I know, and your b*** would definitely fall asleep if you tried. So there's that I definitely don't want that to happen
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Greg Dickson
@ElasticBD · 1:10

Would love to hear more about your book

And it's an amazing process to go through. And just the whole process of writing the book and writing the book is just you're only a third of the way there. Editing is a third. And then marketing is the final marketing promotion is the final third, the last mile, so to speak. So interested to hear more about how your book is coming along and would love to hear more about the book
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Shahnaz Ahmed
@bookishpodcast · 2:21

@LifeOrigami

So I would sit and edit it myself and get it to be as good as I possibly can. And then it would go into actual professional edits and beta reads and all of that. I'm not even thinking in terms of marketing right now or publishing. So my book is an own voices women's fiction, and that's pretty much it. I'm kind of working on a little history about it is that I wrote a play and the play has gone through several drafts
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Shawn Schepps
@Shawn_Christy · 3:12
And the only thing I had that was not filthy or any spoken word I've done is just not good for the south where I'm living right now. So I opened the book and I read the first chapter, and then I did that three times. And then I started thinking I should work on this books because I know it has a problem in the second act. I know there's a structural problem. I know that there's a story issue
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