12/2/04: All done

[davidlevine]

Word count: 124742 | Since last entry: 1482 | This month: 2565

Okay, now it really is all over, including the shouting.

I thought I'd finished the penultimate scene in the last chapter yesterday, but when I woke up this morning (at 5am, after going to sleep at midnight, oy) I realized the villain had been defeated too easily. So tonight I extended that scene with about five hundred words of serious physical action. Then I wrote the anticlimax, as planned, and dove right in and wrote the epilogue too: 775 words. I thought it would be brief, but I wonder if it's too brief. And the very last sentence seems kind of weak.

But... it's done. The first draft is all done. One hundred twenty-four thousand seven hundred and forty-two words (plus about 87,000 words of notes, outlines, and journal entries) in just under two years. I still have some summary and synopsis stuff remaining to do, but...

I wrote a novel.

I WROTE A NOVEL!

Falling over now. Thud.

Comments

Re: Congratulations!

[callyperry.livejournal.com]

Yes, I do dance with the Uncommons, but not very often at their Wednesday night group, because that's the same night that our tape group meets. (Why do we still call them "tape groups" and not "mp3 groups", I wonder?) I'm a more regular attendee at Tech Squares. I'm embarrassed not to have been to IAGSDC conventions yet, although I've been to a few fly-ins. I always seem to have a conflict. I did come really close to making it to Tahoe...

Anyway, congratulations some more on the novel. Get it published, and I'll buy it and bring it to an IAGSDC convention for you to sign!

Cally