I guess it wouldnt be right to let this one go by without a quick post, and besides, I have been abit lax of late.
So, the novel is done. All eighty seven thousand words of it. It needs abit of an edit, and a few bits of work done to make sure the continuity works, but otherwise, I am pretty chuffed with it. I’ve given myself until March to get it into shipshape and then I will be sending it off to a publisher, and then writing something else!
So that’s pretty exciting, and I already have a fair idea of what I will be writing next – another novel, set in the same fictional world – it seems a shame to waste what I have spent so much time building, and I know there are so many more stories I can tell within it. With any luck, and using all the lessons I have learned from writing the first one, I will have the second novel complete by the end of 2012, about the time the first one should have been rejected. Then I will have something else to send off, and if I have as much fun writing the second one as I did the first, then I know it is a worthwhile endeavour, no matter the outcome.
That is about it at the moment on the writing front. I have some work stuff coming up which is going to take up all my free time until March, so I wont have any chance of starting something new, but I think editing the novel will give me something diverting to do when I get a chance.
Lets just hope that the publishers like it as much as I do!
Oh, and I am going to try and start some sort of a reading blog this year, so keep posted for that. I literally cannot remember which books I have read this year, so I’m going to try a little harder to keep a tally.
Hope you all had a good end of 2011 and all the best for 2012!
