When the tinkering stops

At last! The rewriting/tinkering is finished - at least as far as I can tell! Now I'm putting it to one side for a week before a final read/polish, by which time I'm hoping I shall have heard from the RNA with details of some suitable agents to whom to send it. And then I shall return to my prayer mat and say a little prayer for me - or maybe even a great big, gigantic, huge one - maybe lots of them. In fact, I may remain on my knees for ever. I wonder how difficult it is to type from down there?

Funnily enough the final rewrite has ended up being 2,000 words longer than the original version - I think that's due to that particularly awkward character who insisted on playing a bigger part - I just hope she's satisfied.

As for me, I'm positively itching to start something new. I had actually made a start on something before my m/s was returned to me, but I'm not sure whether to return to that or do something completely different. Trouble is, I need to hurry things along a bit, as the RNA has brought forward its deadline for submissions of novels being entered into the next New Writers' Scheme, to August - which gives me precisely 3 months. Fortunately, they do accept partials, which I think, realistically, is all they're going to get.

So, Eva, I guess we should rewind my counter back to the start - which will no doubt please Imogen!