{"id":3256,"date":"2014-02-10T12:12:03","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T17:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.old.caraghobrien.com\/book\/?p=3256"},"modified":"2014-02-10T12:12:03","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T17:12:03","slug":"draft-13-and-the-crunch-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/writing\/draft-13-and-the-crunch-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"Draft 13 and the Crunch Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Draft 13, Track Changes. No page is untouched.<\/p><\/div>\n

Since my first editor originally told me that the manuscript for my new novel was due to go to copyedits last October, and my second editor told me in early November not to worry about deadlines and take my time rewriting the last act of the novel, (about 130 pages), I assumed that my book had been bumped a season to 2015.\u00a0 Season bumps have happened to me before, so I didn\u2019t think much about it.<\/p>\n

Then, in mid-January, when I sent in my next draft, I was surprised to learn that the novel was slated to come out in September 2014.\u00a0 In publishing terms, that\u2019s incredibly soon.\u00a0 I had no idea such a thing was even possible.<\/p>\n

My first concern was whether we could make the book good enough within such a crunch schedule, but my editor, Kate Jacobs, reassured me we wouldn\u2019t be going forward otherwise.\u00a0 She assured me that I had the scenes of the last act blocked in the right way\u2014a goal that had eluded me for over a year\u2014and she promised to work with me closely as I revised.<\/p>\n

And so, over the past three weeks, working days and evenings pretty much without a break, I\u2019ve completed another draft of my novel.\u00a0 In a system I\u2019ve never tried before, I revised the front half of the novel while my editor worked on marginal notes for the back half, which has the newer section.\u00a0 Then Kate sent her notes as she completed them, in two separate chunks, while I kept revising forward.\u00a0 We checked in often to confer on the three major issues that needed tweaking.\u00a0 Along the way, I hit a setback in one rough patch where I had to move a scene, cut another, and adjust a timeline.\u00a0 Last night, I cut chapter breaks for cliffhangers, and this morning, as promised, I sent my latest draft (my thirteenth) to Kate.<\/p>\n

To go from \u201cLa la! No deadlines!\u201d to a crunch schedule is a bit stressful, but honestly, I\u2019m so relieved and happy to have my wild novel coming together that I hardly care.\u00a0 This story has fascinated and tormented me for<\/i> so long<\/i>.\u00a0 It is an incredible feeling to see it coming together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since my first editor originally told me that the manuscript for my new novel was due to go to copyedits last October, and my second editor told me in early November not to worry about deadlines and take my time rewriting the last act of the novel, (about 130 pages), I assumed that my book […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[246,326,37],"class_list":["post-3256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-project-next","tag-revising","tag-writing-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3256"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3262,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3256\/revisions\/3262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}