My desk

That is the tag line of my blog. So how hard was it? Well I have to say the first draft wasn’t that hard. It took me a couple of years I gave up on it at one point then went back. I was able to knock out a 90k first draft relatively painlessly although at the time I didn’t think it was.

The tag line should have been: How hard can it be to write a good book? You see my first draft was pretty much pants. I sent it to an author friend of mine who send it back with some very encourage words but basically told me it was crap.

I have since split it into two books added another major plot line, completely changed some of the characters. Deleted and re-written great chucks of it. I think I am now on my fifth or…