Wa-Hoo! I finished my novel! YAY!
May. 12th, 2007 10:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatWa-hoo! I finished my novel! I finished my novel! It clocks in at 96,973 words and approximately 255 pages. It only took me two years and three months to write. Best thing I've ever written in my humble opinion.
Now, comes the hard part. Revising? Nope. Having other people read it. Then sending it to literary agents and publishers. Then working on the next book in the series. Hopefully, with a full time job, I can clock in a novel every two years. Not giving up the day job any time soon. I come from a long line of frustrated novelists and artists on both sides of my family.
Feeling very proud of myself right now. Even if nothing comes of the novel. There's an odd feeling of accomplishment when you've completed one.
Now, comes the hard part. Revising? Nope. Having other people read it. Then sending it to literary agents and publishers. Then working on the next book in the series. Hopefully, with a full time job, I can clock in a novel every two years. Not giving up the day job any time soon. I come from a long line of frustrated novelists and artists on both sides of my family.
Feeling very proud of myself right now. Even if nothing comes of the novel. There's an odd feeling of accomplishment when you've completed one.
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Re: Congratulations!
Date: 2007-05-13 04:13 pm (UTC)Good advice. Must go get the last ten chapters saved. About 80% of it is already of course. And I've printed off most of it. Also sent a good portion to my email account.
RE: the second bit - luckily for me, I didn't lose the whole thing, just 40-50 pages, which weren't amazing. Not quite the same as losing an entire draft.
I dealt with the missing pages and the incident in an odd way - which wouldn't work for everyone or everyone's books. I just wrote the robbery into my book which fortunately for me resolved a plot problem I was having prior to the incident. It helped me come up with a realistic, pertinent event to thrust my central character into the midst of. Basically turned a negative into something positive. Which in a way is one of the central themes of my novel - finding a way to make life work for you, even when it throws you curve balls and doesn't give you what you want.
Re: Congratulations!
Date: 2007-05-13 04:33 pm (UTC)that is a theme which seems so important on such a basic level. It seems to me that a lot of unhappiness comes from trying to keep things the same while in fact the only constant in life is that everything is always changing (growing, dying). Happiness can only come from adapting to change, but of course I'm always stuck in a rut! LOL