How to Make the Reading of Your Own Novel a Thrilling Experience
Usually you’re too close to your own writing to enjoy it. But here’s one thing you can do to change that!
When you take out that first draft and read it for the first time, the experience will be a total thrill.
Stephen King has said this before: reading your fiction after you haven’t looked at it in a long time is a completely exhilarating experience. Because enough time has passed that you can read it as a reader, not as a writer. Enough will be new to you that you can experience your book the same way a reader might.
Don’t do what I’ve done in the past. Not letting my manuscript rest at all and just going straight into the next draft with barely a breath taken.
You might think you’re being smart in doing this, that you’re saving time, but the irony is you’re actually wasting time, because your book will never receive the revision it needs.
Worse? The experience reading through your novel over and over will become a chore the more you do it. You will have memorized every…
