I finished writing the last scene I had to go back and do in GUERRA last night so what I need to do is basically go through it all once more and possibly minorly redo some scenes and tweak in places.

I have built up an edit list for the second draft whilst still working on the first, mainly because I prefer to stick to the method of not going back and editing whilst still working on a draft unless it is something major that will mean that I will have to undo it all – it helps me keep up my momentum and I am able to juggle the bits that I’m writing whilst also knowing that they could change.  With that said there are some minor things I’d like to do (including rewriting the first chapter which starts at the end and now that I’ve written the end and know how it goes I can synchronise the two) before saying that the first draft is done.  The rest of it I’ll leave for a few weeks then come back and start on the second draft which is usually my final draft apart from small edits here and there.

I don’t think there’s anything major needing done but then again once I start reading through it all I might change my mind.  For the most part it’ll be a case of making it all more subtle and taking out any repetitive stuff.  Writing something over the course of a couple of years means that you don’t really have the same sense of it as you do when you read it back over a few nights so no doubt there’ll be more work in there.

I might even consider opening it up to Beta readers though I doubt it …