So many drafts!
I thought that I would sit down and pop off a draft that I would send to a couple of friends, get their comments, make some changes and shoot off to an agent who could not wait to represent me. It would all be so easy. I mean how hard can it be to put thoughts into words? Well, my first book went through 14 drafts mostly because I did not know what I was doing. I was learning to write at a professional level. I know have eight readers who agree to read the manuscript and make