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[livejournal.com profile] agentobscura is having a fascinating discussion asking folks to suggest how they would respond to various queries. Look for the subject lines "choose your own adventure".

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Date: 2006-03-20 06:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] janni.livejournal.com
I'm finding it fascinating how many people there assume "one final pass" means the author is just fussing too much and giving the book extra polish.

My final passes are a lot deeper than that! All my passes are.

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Date: 2006-03-20 07:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pbray.livejournal.com
Interesting. I do so much prewriting in my head that I don't do as many deep revision passes as other authors do, and I suspect that's why we have different concepts of passes.

I know authors who say "One final pass" when they mean "I'm too nervous to send this out so I want to read it one more time before I convince myself that it's ready to leave the house." That's usually where I am, when my final pass is the last read through, trying to catch all the stupid stuff before I send it out to my agent or editor.

I also know people who have been in the situation described by [livejournal.com profile] agentobscura where they don't have a finished manuscript because they were counting on a several month lag in response time. In one case a friend of mine said "I needed to polish the manuscript" when what she meant was "I need to write the last third of the novel." :-)

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