well, I have to cut about 20 thousand words, but I also have to add a few things, and I have to check over everything, fact-checking, etc., fix the footnotes, and then I will send it to some people to look it over and then incorporate their suggestions. I hope to have the second draft done by January 1st, to submit. Then the press will send it to its readers and we start revising again!
Musil is fortunate to have such a wonderful writer and thinker as a biographer!
Aw, thank you, Dave! I’m trying! Just finished a first draft yesterday!
Fantastic! Mazel tov. From your experience, what percentage towards completion is a first draft?
well, I have to cut about 20 thousand words, but I also have to add a few things, and I have to check over everything, fact-checking, etc., fix the footnotes, and then I will send it to some people to look it over and then incorporate their suggestions. I hope to have the second draft done by January 1st, to submit. Then the press will send it to its readers and we start revising again!
Good to know by an unpublished member of the TCB club. Looking forward to 2026!