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I’ve FINISHED!

Draft one is in the bag, complete. All 34 chapters or so, all 70 000 words (a rough estimate – I haven’t counted) done in its entirety. I have written ‘The End’ and put it away to stew.

I’ve really enjoyed writing this book. The idea came in a moment of extreme boredom at work back in March last year and it has come together so smoothly – at least until the last few chapters. I’m still not sure about those, but I’ll see what I think when I reread it in a couple of months. It could be I’ve written 34 chapters of pure rubbish, or that I’ve got a half decent story, but right now I’m too close to it to judge. I do already know that I need to condense about the first seven chapters into maybe three. It’s a habit I have – taking way too long to get to the meat of the story. But I’ve condensed chapters before and it did make a great improvement. That was the book that’s with the publisher – still waiting on that one…sigh.

I already have an idea for a sequel to this one and another idea for a completely new story and another idea for a prequel to a book I’ve already written books two and three for. Where to start? I really wish I could sell a book for a six figure sum, give up work and just write. But I suspect that’s the dream of 99.9% of writers.

Meanwhile, I’ll plod on…