The Changing Cloak 1st/2nd draft

So, the first draft of The Changing Cloak was finished two days ago. It's the second draft of the novel overall, but the novel was previously named Ever-patient Angel and with the title change came a lot of other changes. I have started to edit it very seriously, changing every other sentence and hurting inside because some of the things I fell in love with when writing them aren't really necessary. I'm sure I'm going to be hurting a lot the next few days because I need to cut approximately 8,000 words out of my novel and that's more than a chapter in my writing style. The good news is that I have already cut almost 1,400 words from the first three chapters and I may be able to cut the desired amount if this rate keeps up. Then again, it's sad to know that I've put so many unnecessary things in my novel. No matter which way you look at it, I'm still hurting. Well, I'll get over it. It's not like I lost my sense of sound and couldn't hear music anymore. That would be devestating (speaking of which, perhaps I should get my ears checked...). Anyway, I have to get back to it and I hope the finished thing is worth reading!

Jane

P.S. It's so weird how my opinion of my novel changes every other moment. One minute I think the plot is original, that it's definitely worth at least looking at, then I'll fuss over how I don't know if the first chapter is captivating enough to make anyone continue reading, the next I'm sure it'll be fine, the next I think the plot has been done before and is a rip-off of Charmed (not that my book is anything like Charmed, there are simply certain elements that are similar), and then I decide I need to get back to editing. Crazy! (I guess my main concern is that a foreign, barely sixteen year old author-without-any-sort-of-degree-in-English's literary language just isn't publishing material. I'm off to change that!)