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earlgreytea68So. That's the original trilogy finished. Just typed "The End." into the last book.
I think it's almost a year to the day since I started the first novel, which is kind of amazing, that it got timed this way.
There is a strange feeling of melancholy that comes over me when I finish a novel. Which is not to say that I'm not happy with it, because I am, very much. But I just spent a year in the narrator's head, a year falling in love with her hero and everyone else around her. I just spent 167,308 words being her, and now I find that her story is told, and it's all very bittersweet, to have that first draft out there. I'll miss the process of getting to know her, of figuring out what happens to her next and how it will tie into the rest of the story. I've never written anything as plotty as this trilogy. I've really never written anything quite like this trilogy. And it was extraordinarily fun to be in the middle of it.
But now I'm on to the next thing! I have ideas for Brem and Athena and Fortuna and the Doctor and Rose, and for another original novel that I'm going to let turn over for a bit in my head.
And now, of course, I'm at the hard part in the novel-writing process: trying to sell it!
I think it's almost a year to the day since I started the first novel, which is kind of amazing, that it got timed this way.
There is a strange feeling of melancholy that comes over me when I finish a novel. Which is not to say that I'm not happy with it, because I am, very much. But I just spent a year in the narrator's head, a year falling in love with her hero and everyone else around her. I just spent 167,308 words being her, and now I find that her story is told, and it's all very bittersweet, to have that first draft out there. I'll miss the process of getting to know her, of figuring out what happens to her next and how it will tie into the rest of the story. I've never written anything as plotty as this trilogy. I've really never written anything quite like this trilogy. And it was extraordinarily fun to be in the middle of it.
But now I'm on to the next thing! I have ideas for Brem and Athena and Fortuna and the Doctor and Rose, and for another original novel that I'm going to let turn over for a bit in my head.
And now, of course, I'm at the hard part in the novel-writing process: trying to sell it!
