I'm starting to realise more and more that I've gone the hard way about writing my book. I wrote the first half without a clear indication of the plot, when I was fourtee. Which has resulted in a multitude of gobbly goop that just shouldn't be there.
When people ask "how's your novel going?" I always have to reply "I'm at the painful editing/revising/rewriting stage where I want to claw my eyes out". Writing my book would have been a much simpler and quicker task if I wrote my outline and then the content. At least I would have spared my father the surprise of telling him I've finally nearly finished writing the outline for the first half of my novel, which I've already written.
It it a bit painful going back and reading it off, summarising the chapters allowing me to compare them to my new chapter outlines and change things, but then again sometimes it's really like a blessing. If I'm reading something and it's super duper boring I know that I REALLY need to rewrite it or cut it altogether otherwise my readers will never ever enjoy it and will put my novel in the boring-as-bat-shit-never-read-again-only-recommend-to-people-I-hate-box. Which is not the outcome I want for my novel.
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