Today I was lucky enough to spend the day editing my next novel at Metal Southend. They’re offering desks to writers all through June overlooking Chalkwell Park, and if you squint, the estuary.
I’ve been editing this fucker for about six weeks and am close to completing the first edit – which is just reading it through and making sense of the world I have created. What I realised today is that I should have kept notes on the bigger structural changes so I can approach them next time around. Instead, I’ve made it slightly more readable and cut 5,000 words. It is showing itself though. I think there’s something good in there.
It was good to have some dedicated time to it, even if I massively overestimated how much I could do in a day.
Paul Schiernecker 
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