Writing Wednesday: I finished a book!

[mizkit]

It always strikes me, when I use that phrase, “I finished a book,” that I usually mean something different than 99% of other people do when they say it. Possibly 99.7%. I, of course, generally mean I finished writing a book, as opposed to reading one. (Although let me tell you, there are times anymore when finishing reading one seems like as much

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[deborahblakehps]

I am (please goddess) about to finish the pre-send-to-my-editor revisions on the next Baba Yaga book. Two months late. Of course, after she reads it, there will be another round, and then copy edits, proofs,and such. I guess that explains why the word "done" doesn't make me do the happy dance quite the way it used to.

Or maybe it is the fact that being two months late turning this one in means I have four months to write the next one instead of six...

But still, YAY, finished!

[gows]

Yaayyyyy! Congratulations!

*waves a little flag*

[peartreealley]

Hurray!

That is a daunting to-do list, but hey. Some of it is handing it off and waiting while you can do something else?

[klwilliams]

My brother is a middle manager for an insurance company, and I'm a computer scientist. He and I were in post-graduate degree programs at the same time, and we had one of our rare phone conversations where we had both finished making a database. He meant he'd defined the fields and relationships using his relational database management system. I meant I'd written the relational database management system. (OK, not the whole thing, but a major part.)

[mizkit]

That's just awesome. :)