I’ve finished my book… and I’m one paragraph short.
I swear, finding the right words on which to tie it all up is more difficult than the whole of the rest of it combined. There won’t be a sequel, so I don’t need to find something commercial and open-ended that will bring the characters back. That, at least, is something, but how do you tie up the final loose end when all of the others have been brought to a logical and satisfying conclusion?
Anyhow, 83,464 words done, and in fairly short order. I started the week after Easter, when I’d outlined the premise at dinner in Darlington and thought that if it was ever going to be more than a brief synopsis I ought to put in some work.
Now I need to go back through for the first edit and rewrite and, you know what, I’m really quite looking forward to it. I loved writing it, and actually looked forward to sitting down and getting my fingers on the keyboard, and now that I feel like I know the characters so much better I can direct them more effectively and make their dialogue better fit their personalities.
There will be some cringe-worthy bits, of course, but that’s what rewrites are for: ironing out, rounding off, and excising the worst of your literary excesses before they escape.
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Congratulations, but is this the book you started about 6 years ago or did I miss something?