I made it through my read-through. Things are starting to shape up a bit. Part II read much better this time around. There will be some minor changes to Parts III, IV, and V, including joining Part III and IV into a single part, but these changes are mostly structural and don’t involve a lot of rewriting. The final part, as suspected, does need some additional writing due to the altered plot, but now I’ve pinpointed exactly where the writing needs to take place and what it needs to say, so I’ll be able to do the work without feeling so lost in the text.
I’ll be starting a third draft tomorrow. After this draft, I’ll need to go through the entire manuscript one last time to fix some tense issues that I never resolved, and then, hopefully, mercifully, I’ll be through with this thing so I can get my royalty check 