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Not that I’m anywhere near to finishing my book, but I’ve been wondering for a while, how do you finish your book? After you’re done the first draft, I mean.

I’ve heard lots of people talk about ‘first drafts’, and that gets me wondering. Do you have to write a second draft? How many drafts do you have to write? How do you write second/third drafts? Do you just go through the whole book rereading the whole thing, and correcting and rewriting parts? Or do you start a whole new document and start afresh? (Which wouldn’t make much sense, I guess.)

And after you’ve written all the drafts, what then do you do? Do you get it beta read at this point, or before the second draft? Do need beta readers?

Are there any other steps after all the afore mentioned steps, or is all that’s left is to get it published?

And what about getting it published? How do you do self-published? I don’t know the name for the other form of published, but how do you do it? And after publishing? Are there any steps afterword?

Sorry, this is a lot of questions. As you can see, I don’t know much (anything) beyond first drafts. Never yet finished a full length novel.

Thanks!