Finishes the first draft...

I know that I was going to post 'more often'. When people say that it's almost always a lie. See this whole moving up North thing has been consuming a lot of my mental effort.. and time, mainly time. I've had a horse to worry about relocating. A boring job. Friends who are already heading back to school and moving to new cities.. Birthday's, wedding's.. it's all excuses of course. The honest truth is that in that final 'crunch' I didn't really feel like writing anything else. (Note the past tense and the fact that I am writing now) Yes... I finished the book. I finished writing my book.

Now what.

Actually I'm super lame. I finished the final chapter, got really excited for a few minutes, skipped around the house -found it empty, made coffee, got ready for work, went to work which was reaaallly quiet, made ice-creams... Tad anti-climatic, Total buzz-kill. Death of buzz.


Now that I am onto that editing stage (I actually came home from work and opened the prologue, away we go back to the start). I'm not entirely sure what to blog about. I mean I can blog about editing but that sounds unexciting even to me.. I could be a real YA Fiction blogger and write reviews I suppose. That would fit in rather nicely with my studies this year. That and editing. My kind of fun!

So February 14th 2012 'Tellan's' last first-draft words were written. Initially it was omg moment. I hadn't realized how close I was to the end. How does it make me feel? Surreal. really. I was so caught up in the story, It was rather emotional those last few chapters really. For a lot of reasons. All of a sudden I was telling myself to sum the story up in 400 words. It did it 537, sat back and felt a little weird. There's no words that can describe that moment when you finish a story that you dreamed up as a 12 year old. Of course my 12-year-old brain would probably have done things much differently.. I don't know what to say other than A series of well-intended swear words and a rather freakish grin.I feel like I should be celebrating or something alas no. It's like any other day.

Of course I left it on a wee bit of a cliff hanger.. which made me want to keep writing. Book two is going to be a shocker!

On an un-related note I recently had to stop and go back after deciding I needed to switch one character for his sister... That turned out to be an epic pain in the everywhere... Consider going through a book, finding every mention of a particular character and changing every name, he, his and him for another name she, her's and her.

I wont be changing it back that's for sure.

Thanks again to Oliver (my wall) who knows the most about my characters next to me.. To SAM (I wrote 'sam' and spell check game me SAM. right.) who has consumed my book and put up with me messaging her about it constantly. Annd to my followers and Auntie Wendy and Sarah and Kristen and James.. And everybody. Just you wait. Now I'm editing you are all in for it... and I love you all.

this distracted me from posting this earlier...