{"id":660,"date":"2011-11-22T14:28:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T14:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thatelusiveline.wordpress.com\/2011\/11\/22\/on-finishing"},"modified":"2022-01-13T12:40:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T12:40:25","slug":"on-finishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulkirkdesign.co.uk\/devblock\/ttaylor111\/on-finishing\/","title":{"rendered":"On Finishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1916 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paulkirkdesign.co.uk\/devblock\/ttaylor111\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/HauntersUK-ThomasTaylor.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"378\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paulkirkdesign.co.uk\/devblock\/ttaylor111\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/HauntersUK-ThomasTaylor.jpg 378w, http:\/\/www.paulkirkdesign.co.uk\/devblock\/ttaylor111\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/HauntersUK-ThomasTaylor-196x300.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 378px) 100vw, 378px\" \/>Yesterday I sent the line edit back for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Haunters-Thomas-Taylor\/dp\/190642778X\/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1321211686&amp;sr=1-3\"><i>Haunters<\/i><\/a>. Since then I have been wrestling with a very odd feeling: the dawning realisation that the bloody thing\u2019s actually finished!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Now, obviously there\u2019s going to be some comeback from the last edit, and I\u2019m sure I\u2019ll be tippexing the screen right up to the end, but right now &#8212; and for the first time in the three years and seven drafts it has taken to reach this point &#8212; I honestly can\u2019t think of anything else I could do with it.<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">When I signed the contract, my agent gave me some very sound advice. In response to my flapping about how craptastic the book was probably going to end up, she told me\u2026 well, first she told me to get a grip, but <i>then<\/i> she told me that the only way to protect myself from critics, detractors and one-star Amazonian book demolishers was to be entirely sure that I had done everything I possibly could to make the book as strong as it could be. If there was a stop, I had to pull it out. If there was an extra mile, I had to plod down it, hacking at the nettles &#8212; yes, even in the rain. I probably looked like a frightened rabbit when she told me all this, but I took that advice to heart.<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Of course, the book could still be utterly craptastic. But objectivity? 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