You’ve just sent your manuscript to your first reader—congratulations! Now what?!
In this video, I share my personal strategy for staying productive and motivated during the waiting period.
Discover how I keep the momentum going between project phases and how this approach sets me up for success when it’s time to revise based on feedback. You’ve got this!
Hello, Jane Cleland here.
The question is, “What do you do after you send your manuscript off to your first reader? I find myself lost.”
Yeah, me too. I feel all sixes and sevens, and my answer is, I write something else. It might be a short story. It might be an article about craft or a proposal for a nonfiction book of some sort. But it is something I expect to sell. I don’t just write to amuse myself.
So that’s what I do and it works for me. Really helps me focus, takes my mind away from that project. Which has an extra benefit: when I get back the notes from the first reader, I am looking at it with fresh eyes because I have taken my mind away from this singular focus. I find it very helpful.
I hope it works for you too. I know you can do it.
If this tip had value, would you do something for me? Would you like it? Would you share it? Would you subscribe to the channel? I’d be so appreciative.
Thank you.
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