I just completed the first draft of my first novel yesterday. What an accomplishment! I can hardly believe that I completed it, yet at the same time I want to keep moving forward with it, although it has reached the end.
From everything I have read online, I guess my next step is not to start my rewrite, as I have such a strong desire to do, but to just read through it once without making any changes. This will be the hardest part of entire process, I'm sure, as I'm such a perfectionist about my writing that I'll want to make at least minor changes on each and every page. (I've already reread this blog post half a dozen times, and I'm still writing it!) But who am I to question those who have tread these waters before me? I will take the advice that I've read written in so many different ways, by so many different writers, and I will fight the temptation to start rewriting, read through the novel, and take lots of notes along the way.
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