February 26, 2005
Finished!!!
As of this evening, I have completed the first draft of the novel!
Sure, I realize it is far from being truly finished, but this is like getting the frame work done on a house and finally seeing kinda what it's going to look like when it's done.
I had a lot of help on this, and to all of those folks, I am incredibly thankful. I have also formatted it for 6"x9" trade paperback size, and even in it's current un-fleshed state we're looking at just under 200 pages, just at 53,000 words. Not bad for a first effort by a little old housewife in Indiana.
Hopefully this means a return to more regular blogging. This poor little site has really suffered from my inablilty to multi-task creatively. I can multi-task the mundane, but not things like this.
Wish me luck. I start with the agency query letters this week. I have a couple of leads I will be looking into.
And thank you for all of your patience.
Glad you're catching up, hope the novel is a success, I can only imagine the tribulations, since I'm on dial-up.
Posted by: Jack at February 26, 2005 11:29 PMCongrats!!!
Posted by: Alli at February 27, 2005 01:16 PMSo have you set up one of those NaNoMo blog thingies for books? It might be good for publicity or something.
Good luck though!
Posted by: Jeremy at February 28, 2005 10:38 PMOops! Sorry. It's one of those blogger features that lets you publish a book blog. I forgot you're a MuNuvian.