12/2/04: All done
Dec. 2nd, 2004 11:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
davidlevineOkay, 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.
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Date: 2004-12-03 08:18 am (UTC)What a terrible wet blanket I sound. So kudos to you for finishing the damn thing.
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Date: 2004-12-03 08:25 am (UTC)Congratulations!
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Date: 2004-12-03 11:37 am (UTC)Crazy(and banging away at her own keyboard, only doing the babysteps thing...)Soph
Re: Congratulations!
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Date: 2004-12-03 03:55 pm (UTC)Re: Congratulations!
Date: 2004-12-04 07:58 am (UTC)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
Congrats!
Date: 2004-12-08 06:58 pm (UTC)Congrats on the novel! I enjoyed the part you read at Worldcon in Boston, so I'll be looking forward to the day it's published!
-- Amy Sisson