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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
... has to be the most boring part. Your head is full of all these ideas for new things you want to write, but you have to spend all your writing time reading stuff you wrote months ago for the hundredth time. Short stories aren't so bad, but for anything longer I can see the appeal of farming it out to a co-writer to do.
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Hi. My name is Damien. I could actually feel the frustration and the headache in your words. I have been there. I thought perhaps what I have evolved into could help.
Edit-As-You-Go
Why it took me so long to figure this out I will never know. These days I edit chapter by chapter, and for the shorter stuff, paragraph by paragraph. Treat each one as though it is a mini-book and in the end it makes the final polishing less time consuming.
Though, keep in mind that, and this is just my opinion, Indie readers do not mind mistakes here and there. The ebook community are not in general the grammar police-troll type. For me, it is the little errors and mishaps that make eBooks feel gritty, real, and non-commercial. They lend to them personality that cookie cutter, bookstore, and name brand novels didn't have. Try not to consume yourself in perfectionism. Focus primarily on 3 things imo.
1) Short Pitch
2) Extended Pitch
3) First 20-30%
After that I really do not go much farther than 3rd draft. I worry more about personality. My books are meant to strike emotional chords, extract physical sensations, and challenge preconceived notions and comfort bubbles. Grammar be damned! Just get-it-on-the-net.
Cheers and may 2012 bring you a ton of prosperity, health, success, and rewarding relationships.