Hello All!
Welcome to my blog. I am hoping to use this space to share the joys and frustrations of writing a novel so that, you, the reader, can better understand the pain and eventual ecstacy we authors go through with our writing.
I have just started a new project, which has the working title 'Taken'. It is about the investigation into a 7-year-old girl who has been abducted from outside of her school. I have written 8000 words so far and am aiming to write between 80 and 85 thousand words by the time I finish.
It takes me about 3-months to complete a first draft of a manuscript so I am hoping to finish typing by early August and will then commence editing. Editing and proof-reading is the worst part of the process as it is difficult to remain objective when reading my own work. It is also difficult to identify contradictions and errors as my eyes tend to glide over words and passages as I already know what is going to happen. I have my wife and mother-in-law who has also carry out proof-reading for me and on 'Redemption', my most recent book, I managed to secure the services of a semi-professional proof-reader, which was really beneficial.
I've had a bit of a bug for the last week so haven't really had much will power to write but hoping to get back to it as quickly as possible.
Thanks for taking the time to read this. Please let me know if you have any comments or feedback or even questions about writing and I'll be happy to assist. You can follow me on Twitter as @stephenedger if you wish. Until next time, happy reading!