Completed the first draft of my current work-in-progress yesterday. Surprisingly emotional moment for me, which I hope means the book’s ending will have an emotional impact on readers.
It’s short, at 57K, but one of the items that I backburnered this round is the further development of a couple of the minor characters, so the revision process is going to bulk it up some.
All the same, it’s doubtful that it will hit the 80K range which seems to be the minimum target of most commercial fiction.
I plan to blog about the ever-perplexing “length” issue soon but not today. Trying to keep my attention on writing, still, not writing about writing ;-)
Congratulations, Kirsten, on getting to this point!! Especially after I read your “Worlds within Worlds” post, I can better appreciate what you’ve done to get there!
P.S. I’m doing my usual eat-lunch-at-my-desk-lurk-on-Kirsten’s-blog routine!
Thanks, Deb.
Still a long way to go . . .
Congratulations, Kirsten!
What kind of novel are you writing? ‘Emotional impact/ending’ seems to suggest that it is a romance novel to me. :)
Of course, IB!!!
:-D