The first Draft is finished! 130,171 words, or 444 pages, regardless of how you care to look at it. The final word was Dodds, which is Alice’s surname – a fine old Northumbrian name. The story is now complete.
That doesn’t mean that the book is finished, though.
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I mentioned in my last post that things tend to speed up when I near the end. That post was only a week ago, but already I have passed the 120,000 word mark. I became so engrossed in what I was writing that it passed me by without my noticing,
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It is only eleven days since I announced that I had passed the 110,000 word mark. This morning, I made that 120,000. It is always like this when you write a novel. As you get near the end, you speed up. When toiling through the process to reach this point,
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As promised, this is your notification that I have passed the 110,000 word mark. The word was a not very helpful ‘when’. Every so often, I get a sudden spurt of inspiration. This usually comes when a major element in the story is revealed, as was the case yesterday. It is preceded,
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