Even writers have deadlines. Or do you believe that one is put there to create his work and then the door pretty good editor for publication ? Perhaps there is still someone who does, but if you work with a major publishing house, the kind that publish hundreds of titles, you can not submit the manuscript and the smile on lips and hope to publish it three months later.
No, it is managed well in advance by officials literary and editorial director together determine what is the best time for the release of the novel and set the timing a series of nice flags: date signature contract delivery date first version, the first review date, date first draft, then draft and final delivery date ... go! The output library.
My deadline is in 18 days.
My deadline is in 18 days.
When I signed the contract I made with a certain arrogance: He was giving me a lot of time to write the new novel. A lot of fear for the parameters of the journalist agency, that when one starts writing a column does so with the awareness that had to be ready two hours before. But that
I'm not a bad way. They are really the ultimate rush, I miss the last chapter and I know - or at least I think I know - where it going to end my new story. I was very diligent and I wrote constantly, without ever losing the thread of the narrative and with a penalty from athletic preparation.
just that many things have happened since then, first of all to promote responsible drafting NewMedia , In the last three and a half months I took ten hours a day at the agency. But I started going to work by train and this has allowed less than 100 minutes per day of total immersion in writing. Every day, just took place, I turned on the iPod faithful , the ' HP EliteBook 2530p and I am isolated from the rest of the world. Fifty minutes and fifty minutes to the return leg of pure writing, nothing that could be distant. And my brain must have been so used at the scheduled time that if I was not planning to write began fingers itch for the desire to pass on words on words on the keyboard.
But comes the time where you have to devote himself entirely to writing. so now I know my characters well can predict their every move - on this thing a bit ' Pirandellian sooner or later we entertain - and I know where the story has to land. So I took a week off to stay at home and bring the ship into port.
It 's a good feeling: a merciless downpour outside the window, a good coffee on your desk, Musicovery set to a right channel and an old, soft plush Old Navy him.