Each day brings me closer and closer to finishing the fifth book in my Corrosive Knights saga.  As of yesterday, 1/20/14, I finished the edits on the fifth draft of this fifth novel in the series, printed it up, and as of today I’m onto the sixth draft.

How many more drafts will this novel take?  That’s the question, isn’t it?

At this point, I’m comfortable in saying the book may require no more than between two and four drafts.  The later number may sound scary considering the time it takes me to do each new draft, but most of the major plot issues/contradictions/rewrites have been resolved, leaving behind smaller plot points or descriptions which I’ll address now.  I’m on the verge of moving from reworking things to simply tidying up.  Or, as the late Elmore Leonard so appropriately stated, giving readers the stuff they want to read and getting rid of the stuff they don’t.

It’s a lot of work but trust me, its going to be good.

Onward!