Meant to post this yesterday but wound up not having the time, but here’s the latest update: I have finished putting all the corrections/additions/subtractions into the computer and Draft #8 of the latest Corrosive Knights Book, #7 in the series, is done…

It took 3 weeks to read the book and put in the pen and ink revisions and 2 weeks to put all those revisions into the computer, for a total time spent on this draft of one month and one week.

It may seem like a long time, but that’s incredibly quick.  Some early drafts of the book took up to five months to get through!

What that indicates is that the book is becoming closer and closer to being finished.  This is logical: Each new draft I finish up should, in theory, make the book that much better/closer to being complete.

What’s next?

Welp, I print the sucker out and get right back to re-reading it and doing the pen/ink revisions.  I feel a good chunk of the book is very close to being complete in all ways while there are a few sections here and there that could use more polish.

Draft #8 found the novel’s story pretty much all there.  I did add a few bits of dialogue here and there to add a little spice to the story and found one full chapter needed to be moved to farther into the book -and, it turned out, pared down considerably- but otherwise things are getting that much closer to the end.

So it’s on to Draft #9 for me.  I’m most curious to see how the book “reads” now and how much I’ll find needs revision.  That, more than anything else, will give me an idea as to how close to the final draft I am.

Hang in there, folks!