Five days before Christmas, I closed the manuscript I’d been working on after a furious final day where I cranked out 3,000 words while the kids were at their last day of vacation care for the year. For the next seven weeks, I did no writing. I thought deeply about the manuscript, but I didn’t touch the computer. I walked…
The first draft is done! Hoo-freaking-ray! Recently on the blog, I wrote about how it felt to write the words ‘The End’ on a novel I’ve been working on for two years.
Now what?
Now the real work begins.
It’s truly a thrill to welcome author, Jane Messer, to Book Birdy. Apart from being an inspiring creative writing teacher (to which I can attest from first hand experience) she is also an extremely talented writer. Jane has recently published her third, full-length novel, titled ‘Hopscotch’, which you can read more about here. But read-on for some excellent words of…