Huh.

[earlgreytea68]

So. 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!

Comments

[fishface44.livejournal.com]

This is very exciting!!! (and not just because you have ideas for the Chaosverse!!) *dances*

[earlgreytea68.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[frakup.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! I hope, one way or another, that we'll get to read them someday.

Also, been meaning to tell you, I launched in to a Chaosverse re-read this week. It's so flippin' good. I just love it so much.

[earlgreytea68.livejournal.com]

Thank you! If it doesn't end up getting published--or if it does--you lovely readers will still be the first people to read it.

And yay! I'm so glad that you still love it! I admit I was thinking of starting a re-read myself, so that I could get back in the Chaosverse state of mind.

[dqbunny.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! I hope we get to read them one day as well!

[earlgreytea68.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I sincerely hope so, too! If nothing else, I'll probably end up posting them on LJ, if there's interest!

[tuarwenancalime.livejournal.com]

You don't have to 'sell' anything. I'm already I die-hard of anything you write. I could read Chaosverse forever. I think I've already read through it all about 4 times.

[earlgreytea68.livejournal.com]

Awww, you're so sweet, thank you!

[lorelaisquared.livejournal.com]

Huzzah! I'm so glad you're finished it even if it is bittersweet. Pretty amazing about the timing. I can't believe you wrote all of that in only a year! That's actually pretty incredible!

And they're great stories, I'm sure that someone out there will be wise enough to snatch it up because you're amazingly talented and you deserve it. Someone out there will see it. I'm certain!

[earlgreytea68.livejournal.com]

It's so funny that it turned out to be exactly a year like that. I really didn't think I'd write them so quickly! To be honest, it felt more like writing one enormous book than just writing one book, you know?

And thank you for your good wishes!

[lorelaisquared.livejournal.com]

It really is interesting timing. Very poetic. And yes it is a bit like one big novel in 3 parts than 3 separate ones. I can't believe you're really done - AMAZING!

You're most welcome!

[azriona.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! (And good luck!)

[earlgreytea68.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[treading.livejournal.com]

Chiming in ridiculously late, but congratulations! And good luck! Sometimes it takes a long time, but don't give up!

[earlgreytea68.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I am in the midst of editing my query letter eleventy billion times!