Huh. Woot, I suppose.
Wednesday, September 29th, 2010 01:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lizvogelYesterday, I finished the final chapter of my novel.
"Done" is an interesting concept, for something as large and complex as a novel. I have written the final line of the final scene, and all the lines and scenes leading up to it. I still need to see what the betas think of the last bit, and incorporate their comments as appropriate. There's also a fist-full of tape flags on the earlier chapters, mostly word-choice and the occasional typo, but a few that may take real thinking. I knocked off several of the easier ones last night, but there's plenty left. And there will likely be another beta or two to come, now that I can hand over the whole work at once.
However, the thing is written; if I had to hand it to a publisher today, I could strip out the find-a-better-word brackets and have a functional manuscript. It's just shy of 65,000 words, if my late-night math holds true.
That's done enough that I treated the housemate to a sushi dinner in celebration last night. And you know? That's done enough to be pretty damned cool.
"Done" is an interesting concept, for something as large and complex as a novel. I have written the final line of the final scene, and all the lines and scenes leading up to it. I still need to see what the betas think of the last bit, and incorporate their comments as appropriate. There's also a fist-full of tape flags on the earlier chapters, mostly word-choice and the occasional typo, but a few that may take real thinking. I knocked off several of the easier ones last night, but there's plenty left. And there will likely be another beta or two to come, now that I can hand over the whole work at once.
However, the thing is written; if I had to hand it to a publisher today, I could strip out the find-a-better-word brackets and have a functional manuscript. It's just shy of 65,000 words, if my late-night math holds true.
That's done enough that I treated the housemate to a sushi dinner in celebration last night. And you know? That's done enough to be pretty damned cool.
