It is officially done! I have put the two most beautiful words in the English language in my most recent novel… “The End”.
Which, of course, doesn’t actually mean the end. It means the start of all the editing I need to do before this hits digital-shelves, but still! This is a very important stage, and I’m happy to have reached it.
I am going to relax for, oh… two, maybe three minutes, and then get started on the second draft, cleaning up the worst of the mistakes I made in the first draft, before sending it off to my editor, who will weave her amazing magic and make it infinitely better before I move on to the fourth, and likely final, draft. So I expect this will see the light of day in three weeks or so… means I have to start cover-shopping, but that’s okay too! I don’t like the publishing process, as it is, but it is nice to be able to pay a little forward to other artists and creators, like the artists for the cover and my editor. That’s a nice feeling.
I look forward to the day that I can actually afford to do that, rather than going into debt to pay for them, but that’s a future goal! For now, I am going to pour myself something with maple whiskey in it, relax for a little bit, maybe even watch an episode of Clone Wars (gasp!), and then get back to work.
Hope everyone out there is staying safe and healthy!