When writing starts to feel like work...

I finished the first draft of my first novel last week, which gave me a great sense of accomplishment and pride, along with excitement and some relief.
Since then though, as I've been reading the whole book from start to finish for the first time, I've realized that a whole new project has begun. And this is not the part of writing that I find to be fun; the editing and the re-writes...

It's an amazing process though really. You can almost see that I was probably in a different place in my life during different sections, just by the writing, and scenes that I thought worked for me then, need to be tweaked some now. I know full well that going through this process will make the novel much better in the end, but right now, having to actually do the work just sucks! :)

Now also spewing random nonsense on my new blog at:
http://djpare.blogspot.com/