I’ve finished the first draft of my 4th Novel, 99 Reasons Why**.
One draft down, only 47563 drafts to go.
(hooray hooray, hooray!) (oh. my. goodness. 4 novels!) (seriously, I’ve written 4 novels! )
** working title, real title will be longer.
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You have indeed, ’tis brilliant x
Oh well done honey!!! Novel 4!! Blimey!!
C x
Don’t you ever worry you’ll run out of words? You must have drained the dictionary already. Congratulations.
Hurrah!
Well done you!
Well done!
Helen M Hunt – and congratulations to you too!
Carol – 4!!!
David O’Connor Thompson – I’m terrified the ideas will stop. I’ve 10,000 words of novel 5 written and haven’t thought about novel 6 yet. What if I’ve no more ideas? ahhhh.
Rachel Green – thank you!
Lucy Diamond – it’s the ‘doing it’ before the kids finish school push
xxx
Blimey, you’re positively churning them out now. What’s your secret?
4!! Wow! I need to start playing catch up
Seriously though, well done you, that’s quite a thing to achive xx Simon will be impressed.
Fantastic!
Well done chick, now onto book five….I’ll allow you a tiny rest x
Hello Caroline Honey!
Congratulations! Finishing a first draft is a HUGE accomplishment! You must wear something sparkly and go out to celebrate! WOOHOO FOR YOU!
Huggles
Jamieson
You are amazing. I hope you’ll make me cry again
Excellent, well done! I can’t wait to read it.
Congratulations! Well done!
Captain Black – My secret is writing until my head hurts and my fingers bleed and my children manage to escape from the cage that they are forced to live in, while I churn… obviously.
claire p – if Simon reads my blog, you’d think he’d send me a sign…
trousers – thank you!
Mel – I’ll take a week off, then start Boss…
Jamieson Wolf – thanking you!
Beth – no, it’s a non-crying one! Hooray.
Nicola Smith – lovely to see you here! Thank you.
Rosie Scribble – thank you!
xxx
Congratamulations – 4 novels eh? Wow. You’re, like, a proper writer and stuff.
When’s no.3 due out anyway? And does it have a cover yet? Did i miss that?
Nope, nothing final on novel 3… I am feeling increasingly scared that it’ll not hapen.