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What is the absolute best moment of writing a novel?
Is it, as many have said, the moment when it's finished and on its way to the publisher, the blissful experience -- not of writing, but of having written?
Or for you was it something else? Several different moments, perhaps?
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I had many good moments:
ReplyDeleteOne day I walked the ms. across Manhattan in the rain to deliver to an agent on Times Square. (She read it & said she couldn't sell it. Still: 2 months of happiness.)
One day I met my publisher for lunch and handed over the final version. Watershed moment. (But it wasn't QUITE the final version, if I remember correctly.)
One day a young proofreader brought her marked-up copy and we spent the rest of the afternoon discussing hyphens & upper case letters & the meat of the novel, which she'd read with extreme care. That may be the best moment of all.