Kind of Dumbfounded, Really
Y'all, I just finished my first novel.
That meant, today, writing--I don't know, about 500 words? It wasn't a mammoth accomplishment today. I'm not sure the stuff I did today is good at all. But overall... after most of a lifetime of writing off and on I will always be able to say, from now on, that I have written a book.
It needs a lot of work; still awfully short and goodness knows polish is required and there's this scene I need to take out and another I need to put in and a stitched-up thumb should really matter more to my heroine.
But I wrote a book.
I finished one. I made it all the way through to the end.
Death Calling or Death In Sight or Whatever the Publishing House Wants To Call It If I Should Be So Lucky is my first novel, whether in five years I'm happy about that fact or not. ;)
Tonight there will be Lindor orange chocolate.
That meant, today, writing--I don't know, about 500 words? It wasn't a mammoth accomplishment today. I'm not sure the stuff I did today is good at all. But overall... after most of a lifetime of writing off and on I will always be able to say, from now on, that I have written a book.
It needs a lot of work; still awfully short and goodness knows polish is required and there's this scene I need to take out and another I need to put in and a stitched-up thumb should really matter more to my heroine.
But I wrote a book.
I finished one. I made it all the way through to the end.
Death Calling or Death In Sight or Whatever the Publishing House Wants To Call It If I Should Be So Lucky is my first novel, whether in five years I'm happy about that fact or not. ;)
Tonight there will be Lindor orange chocolate.