I'm done, I'm done, I'm done, I'M DONE!!!
Okay, let me strive for some decorum here. (Happy dance!!) Okay, trying again.
First draft of *Marks of Repentance* (aka Shann's story, which really turned into Taafa's story, but I digress...) was completed today at 95199 words.
Last night while my brain was relaxing and I was trying to fall asleep, I began playing with the ending scenes. And it hit me, that if Taafa happened along just a few minutes later than I thought...BINGO!!! It all came together. Then I had to flip the light back on so I could jot some notes down. After the *dream* the night before, I didn't trust myself to remember anything at all come morning!
And notes in hand and 3576 words into the keyboard, and we have a completed first draft in fifteen weeks. It's funny, it seems way longer than that!
The summer now belongs to revisions of *False Perceptions* and a crit of Mar's novel, Kyrnie. I hope my brain can shift gears now! :)
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- Valerie Comer
- Valerie Comer’s life on a small farm in western Canada provides the seed for stories of contemporary Christian romance. Like many of her characters, Valerie grows much of her own food and is active in the local foods movement as well as her church. She only hopes her imaginary friends enjoy their happily-ever-afters as much as she does hers, shared with her husband, adult kids, and adorable granddaughters. Valerie is a USA Today bestselling author and a two-time Word Award winner. She has been called “a stellar storyteller” as she injects experience laced with humor into her green clean romances.
4 comments:
Yay! It's a wonderful feeling of accomplishment to write "The End" at the end (even if you know it's not really the end because eventually it will all have to be revised). :) But still, you wrote the whole thing. I raise my cup of coffee to you. (because it's only 8:30 a.m. and I don't do anything stronger than coffee most of the time, anyway.) Cheers!
Linda
Thanks, Linda! Mmm, coffee...
Awesome!! Congratulations and wonderful work. Smart move on jotting down your thoughts when you had them. Good luck with revisions. Mine are more work than writing, I think, but I chalk that up to the organic process.
Thanks, Jean. The only novel I've ever revised I revised twice--and then shelved. So I'm a little nervous about this process yet. And yes, I think its more work than writing. After all, I *used* to say, *but I can fix that in revision*, and now the time has come.
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