For those of you who are Patreon subscribers (hello! Thank you!), you already know this, but the novel is officially over 70K words and heading towards the finish line. The conclusion is so close I can almost taste it. Just got a few threads to wrap up, and then a lot of work to get this draft into a viable 2nd draft that I can submit to the editor.
And that feels good. I love getting a novel to this stage (significantly more than I love all the hoops I have to jump through to actually publish it). Just gotta keep my eyes on the prize, as they say, and focus on getting this actually finished (instead of almost finished!).
I’m pretty happy with how the story has shaped up. This isn’t the way I thought it would go, to be completely frank… the characters have taken me for a few very unexpected twists along the way, and the final confrontation is going to be very different from what I originally thought it would be. But that’s great! That’s part of the reason I love writing! I hope everyone who reads this enjoys it as much as I have enjoyed writing it (so far… the editing process, and then the programming needed to actually publish the novel… yeah, those parts I’m not as crazy about).
Hope everyone out there is staying safe and healthy!