Geoff Rod

I explained it this way:

The first version, Bury the Dead, had gotten a story down, but it was an uninspired chronicle that ultimately never went anywhere. 

Denver Nights corrected that issue, and was a more powerful tale.  But I’d taken a lot of personal risks getting there, and at the end, the writing was poor.

The modified writing style I’d worked on would probably fix that too, but I’d be rolling the dice again by taking the three months it needed.  I explained the challenge I had with doing short-gap writing, and the reason why I needed to dedicate my time exclusively to writing.

I relayed the other things I’d also face afterwards, if I was to do the third rewrite.  The query letters.  The agents.  Trying to push the book into an already overcrowded market.  The subjectivity of publishing in general.