Just call me a rolling Stone
So I kept going, and while it’s now after midnight, I still count any work before going to sleep as part of the previous day.
Total word count for the day: 4026.
Total word count on the novel: 149,686.
Total words left to go: 0.
In other words, I’m done. Finished. Finito.
Next comes the revising.
*insert joyous celebration here*
Congrats man. So, any opinions of your novel now that it’s done? Do you like it? Do you think it’s competitive? (of course, I assume we’re talking about after it is all prettied and polished)
Well, here’s a quote from Orson Scott Card:
“…the greatest work of genius ever written in English.”
Unfortunately, he’s not talking about my novel, so I probably shouldn’t have even brought it up in this context.
I hope that, with some revision, it will be publishable. I’m pretty sure that if someone else had written this novel, I would have really enjoyed reading it. But my tastes and the tastes of publishers do not always intersect.
Well, it’s got a couple of fans in the Wenger household.
Congratulations.
3 cheers! and w/o breaking the evil 150k word line of death! :)
Congrats, man! I’m excited to read it. I’ve been trying to read it from the beginning, but I get confused with the etnire chunk of the middle that I read. I guess I’ll just read to the end and start over and meet myself in the middle. Kind of like the Star Wars movies. But better writing.
I am so proud of you Eric! I am so excited to read it! I can still rememeber how much I loved the prologue and how disappointed I was that there was nothing more to read at that point – I have been dying to know what happened next. My decision to wait until it was finished has left me itching for what seems like 10 years, but I think was only 2? I sure wish it was Friday so I could just start reading and not stop until I was done! Once again, congratulations on your accomplishment. I’ll be posting my “review” as soon as I can. :-)
Woohoo!!!! You must be so proud of yourself.
What’s that movie with Chevy Chase in it? With the iceskaters and “cue the deer”?
Wanting to write a novel, deciding to write a novel and then actually writing a novel are very different things. Congratulations, you have actually written a novel.
I am so proud.