‘Don’t rush. Take your time and let it progress naturally.’ Advice I should have listened to for MANY things in my life. 😊 but that is important with the writing and publishing process. Process -yep that’s what it is. There are steps to follow and honestly, my first novel and what I’m dealing with now is the proof that you should never rush the process. I’ll go through the steps in my next blog post, or the steps that I have learned that need to be done for sure. There may be more than what I put up later on, but just the basics are enough to follow with and then you find your steps along the way as you go along. But this post will be about why you should follow through on this, and to talk about the consequences of rushing. You see, I started writing my book in November 2011, and had the first draft done by about January. I was beyond excited, telling everyone. I was getting my social media started, as best you could back then. Twitter was the hit and Facebook, and I was all over both, gaining the people I needed to gain. (I followed that rule well), but then I erred in thinking that I just needed to have some proofreaders and to read over it myself multiple times. An important aspect of the process is getting it edited. Write it up, re-write it, and then edit it. I was thinking that I had done so well, there was no problem with skipping a step or so. THIS IS WRONG! Don’t do that. I was hit hard with bad reviews after and later coming to the reality that I am an excellent storyteller but an awful writer. It took me a while to understand that statement. It is possible. Let me say it again: You can be an amazing storyteller but an awful writer. I can write, don’t take that the wrong way. I have pretty good grammar and can type up a paper with it making sense to a reader. However, my punctuation is terrible, and I skip important movements of characters. (Ex: I get them to where I want them to be without explaining how they get there.) I practice this to this day and I must pay a lot of attention to what I’m doing because a lot of times my brain is going faster than my fingers and so I end up skipping over important details. I’m not ashamed to admit these things, but that’s why there is a process out there to help everyone get through it and come out better at the end of it.
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