News! Suddenly and without warning, I finished the first draft of my novel yesterday. It had been a morning of writing avoidance, and I pushed myself to do just a bit, when hours later I found myself doing the last few lines and realised- that was it. All done. Oh... Just like that.
I'd given birth without noticing! It's been a three month labour and the baby's a bit small at 42,000 words but I envisage as she gets to about 6 rewrites, she will have grown nicely,will be beautiful and will be able to stand on her own two legs.
Such a strange feeling, standing on this hill where I am now. Theres the peaks ahead of me, yet to scale that I'm excited about, but it's also nice to look back and see how far I've come. And for me, finishing something for myself, is a bit of a miracle.
So, I thought it would be off the keyboard for a bit to give me some objective space before rewrites, but then I just bought tickets for the NSW Writers Centres Festival. You can get a chance to pitch your book to industry professionals as well as put forward the first page of your book for appraisal so... It's back to the keyboard to work on some other stories I have. Such trivialities as painting the house will have to wait!
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