If you had been working on a book for five years and just finished typing it a few months ago, would you start over from scratch?
2006-11-01 10:40:05 · 11 answers · asked by Nicky 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
You wouldn't be asking if you didn't feel it needed to be done. There's a lot more work that goes into creating it than just typing it. Most of the work is mental.
I've just started re-doing my novel for the fourth time after an editor rejected the version I sent them and told me it needed more polish. I had to admit I sent it prematurely.
So I let it sit for a few months and came back to it later. I look at it this way: I'm this far in it, I have to finish it. You only regret the things you don't do.
Best of luck to you.
2006-11-01 10:44:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I hate to say this till you get an editor, you may need to re wright a book three or five times. Five is the max i have had to do, twice with a great out line was the fewest.
You do not have to start over for scratch in less you need to
2006-11-01 11:02:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where does this question come from? What is the background? Did you have a similar experience or something? I would really need more details on the book, and I doubt I would have to start completely from scratch, since I would have already done research. But my answer, I suppose, is yes.
2006-11-01 10:42:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, typically they don't. that's a dreadful waste of time in case you won't be able to promote the first e book. the traditional suggestion is to initiate writing yet another _different_ e book (no longer a sequel or portion of the sequence) once you initiate filing the first. Rowling wrote the ultimate _chapter_ till now publishing the first e book, yet i have by no skill heard that she wrote the entire very last e book. "i'm no longer particular what form of remaining dates (or how that's set up between author and writer) authors are lower than to end a e book" to really write it? often, none, because what they're promoting is a accomplished manuscript.
2016-10-16 07:14:32 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only if I wanted to write an entirely new one.
If it is the same book, I would edit what I had written so far to make the changes I wanted, but not just to write the same thing from scratch.
2006-11-01 10:48:30 · answer #5 · answered by KieKie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would edit some parts but to start from scratch, makes it seem like I did not have a good story to tell in the begining
2006-11-01 11:01:33 · answer #6 · answered by Wicked 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why would if I finished typing it?
2006-11-01 10:47:39 · answer #7 · answered by Katie Girl 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If I had a good reason, yes. But it would have to be a very good reason.
2006-11-01 10:41:29 · answer #8 · answered by notyou311 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don't think so...if i worked so hard on it i don't understand why i would start over
2006-11-01 10:45:36 · answer #9 · answered by anonymous 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No way. start a new one maybe...
2006-11-01 10:48:23 · answer #10 · answered by string1dm 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋