Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

I’ve noticed a few phases of writing a book:

1. planning or outlining and researching
2. writing – the first time
3. rewriting – several times
4. I can’t look at this anymore, I am sick of it
5. a publisher accepts it
6. the book is published and I receive a copy
7. I cannot read any of it. If I do read, my reaction is, “This is awful! Who wrote this?”
8. Some time later – six months to a year – I can read it and react, “This is pretty good stuff.”