Yes, yes. It’s that time again my friends. Tomorrow is day 1 of the Savvy Authors May bootcamp. I’m excited to get started. My newly finished UF draft will be my project for the month. I’m hoping I can complete the total 1st round rewrites on it, thus putting me in good shape to start my polishing phase for it in June.
I’ll admit, this is a highly ambitious project– undertaking a 90k word rewrite in just 30 days– but I’m convinced with concentrated effort, I can pull it off. My rough draft is a little over 80K words and I believe I can reuse atleast 85% of it for this next draft. My main goals are to:
- Add a new Act I (roughly 20k words)
- Eliminate some now unnecessary scenes
- Rearrange a few scenes to better serve the plot
- Add about 15-20 k of new content.
It won’t be easy, but generally nothing worth having , nor any goal worth attaining is. 🙂 I’m not going to lie to myself and even say I’ll do daily updates here as to my process, but I will do a weekly recap.
Best of luck to all my fellow bootcampers.