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That title pretty much says it all. I turned in the last 4673 words today, thereby completing the first draft of my latest novel, Hybrids (working title).
There were no particularly tough writing spots, but the conceptual leap I had to make as things started breaking down was extensive and difficult, including a couple nights' worth of weird, troubling dreams.
The final word count, according to the word counter used among my friends (The Only Count That Matters) is 77,633 words. That includes some extraneous stuff, such as parenthetical notes to myself about how things should go, or be fixed, or whatever, but those notes probably make up less than 200 words grand total.
As seems to be usual with me, I end the novel in the "wide open for a sequel" style, but of course I'll tell you little more than that, so as not to ruin the surprise. One of my enterprising fans has been reading every installment the next morning, and had made encouraging comments as I went along. Of course, this fan is my mother, so it's not altogether unexpected to get encouraging comments.
Last year, at this point, I turned around and started assiduously editing the completed draft. I don't know if I'm going to do that or not, at least not tomorrow. Tomorrow, being the day after Thanksgiving, may be given over to some kind of craven shopping nightmare, although I'm also debating begging off the whole thing. I don't think this would surprise anyone, and I could reasonably explain that I had to start editing, in addition to my general dislike of crowds -- particularly frantic pressing crowds.
In any case, it's nice to be finished, although this one will be a bigger editing job than the last novel, Troublesome Cargo. My editing job on that one kind of petered out some time early this year, but I should pick it back up and finish. I was nearly done with my second-pass edit to clean up awkward language and such, and then it'd be "publishable" enough that I could toss it up on Dangerpants (my "art" website) without being too embarrassed.
Now, I must away to my sleeping-chamber, to sleep off the ridiculous amount of food I ingested for this particular turkey day.
Posted at 23:47 permanent link category: /misc
Categories: all aviation Building a Biplane bicycle gadgets misc motorcycle theater