Book. Is. Done.
Wednesday, December 17th, 2025 04:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lizvogelAs of this afternoon, Apocollapse is, finally, finished!
Of course, this is the version of "done" that still includes some find-a-better-word brackets, and a couple small chunks that I keep waffling about whether I need or not. One of which depends on whether I split the inordinately large last chapter into two, which might change the title of the epilogue-chapter, which might or might not carry that load.... But it is a coherent hunk of text with a beginning and an end and no gaps in between. Hooray!
It clocks in at an overwhelming 134,665 words. Woof! It is by far the longest thing I've ever written.
It has taken me two years and one-and-a-half months, which despite feeling like it was taking forever is actually pretty fast for me, for a novel. Faster by half than books that were 25%-40% shorter! And that time includes the better part of a year when I was dealing with Mom's medical care and then her estate, and doing very little writing at all.
I shall hand it over to the alpha-reader tonight, and give it a full proper read-through myself fairly soon. For now, though, it is Done. And Done is a very good thing for a book to be.
Of course, this is the version of "done" that still includes some find-a-better-word brackets, and a couple small chunks that I keep waffling about whether I need or not. One of which depends on whether I split the inordinately large last chapter into two, which might change the title of the epilogue-chapter, which might or might not carry that load.... But it is a coherent hunk of text with a beginning and an end and no gaps in between. Hooray!
It clocks in at an overwhelming 134,665 words. Woof! It is by far the longest thing I've ever written.
It has taken me two years and one-and-a-half months, which despite feeling like it was taking forever is actually pretty fast for me, for a novel. Faster by half than books that were 25%-40% shorter! And that time includes the better part of a year when I was dealing with Mom's medical care and then her estate, and doing very little writing at all.
I shall hand it over to the alpha-reader tonight, and give it a full proper read-through myself fairly soon. For now, though, it is Done. And Done is a very good thing for a book to be.
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