The following is syndicated from the website of JeanNicole Rivers and is posted here with permission. So you finally got that book down on paper, a rough draft, but still the characters have been created and a basic series of events with a beginning, middle and end are in place (but boy is it rough). I know what you’re saying, “I am exhausted, my creativity is depleted, there are lots of holes in the plot, the character’s names change and I am don’t know if I even want to finish the manuscript.” Don’t panic, don’t give up, you are on the verge of greatness.