Publishing A Book: The Basics

If I’m busy writing a book, how long does is it take to write it?

It depends, if you mean a first draft… it could take a couple of weeks or a month or two. A second draft is a but more intense and I spend the majority of my time “pruning” meaning I cut back about 20% of what I wrote.

Life and editing can be painful.

My biggest thing that I do is get a close friend to read it. Normally I go here read. Why this method, well simple, they read it and can’t put it down, it’s on to the third edit, they find 1001 reasons to get away from reading it, and there’s a problem.

Back to cutting. I’ll even cut a character or merge them.

Publishing a book is easy, I just have to, as Jill says Kill my Darlings….

My Question for today is this: How do you make sure a book is ready to send out to be published after editing?