About two weeks ago I finished the rewrite. Since then I've been going through the draft mostly to catch up to the way I handle tenses ... the present of 2006 & 2007. The past in moments of reflection. I've also cleaned up some formatting.
Now I'll read through it again and hopefully tidy up some stuff. I have left lots of comments and highlighted sections in the manuscript that I know I have to return to. I don't know how other writers do it. Do they force themselves to stay on a page, in a paragraph until that get the revision perfect? Or do they plow ahead and hope a light bulb will go on sometime and the revision will be obvious when they return? That's my method. But it may lead to endless rewrites.
I think it is also time to resume sending off query letters to agents.
I gone through all my comments, deleted about 100 which were taken care of in the last couple of revisions. I have ~200 left to consider.
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