Attract Mode

Major Stage Completed

May 14th, 2006

OK, I have a rough draft done.

Ignore the word count in the corner. I’ll sort it out later. It’s been harder to keep track now, with Writely. But I like Writely anyhow.

I’m slightly tipsy.

I can use ’slightly’ in conversational writing, like this, see? Even if I frown at myself for doing it in fiction. When i finished my last rough draft, many years ago, back in college, I went through and removed every instance of ’slightly’. I think there were hundreds. That’s a lot.

89,300 words. Or so. I expect to add about 10k in the transition between ‘rough draft’ and ‘first draft’. Then people get to read it. You know, the friendly, communicative sort. Or the ones I make demands of. YMMV.

Maybe more than slightly tipsy. See what a waste of space ’slightly’ is?

It’s not like I went out and got drunk as soon as I was done. I’ve been meaning to drink this bottle of wine for ages, and the time was never right when I thought about it. So I cracked it open about two scenes ago.

Kevin went to E3 on Tuesday. He has no idea what I’ve been up to. I called it a ’secret project’. Won’t he be surprised?

It’s pretty short, compared to many popular modern fantasy novels. But i’ve heard short is ‘in’ at the moment, so I’m not concerned. And it’s just a freshman project! Not a REAL novel!

I had too much fun. I thought, “I like this so much it’s like fan-fiction. It can’t be good if it’s feels so right, can it?”  Everybody did everything just right. Maybe that’s how endings work? All candy, all the time.

 

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