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swan_towerIt's messy, it's ragged, it's got continuity holes big enough to drive a subway train through, but for the moment, it's done.
I now have four Onyx Court novels.
Good Christ that epilogue was hard to write. Possibly it sucks. I have no idea. What the hell does one write, to end a four-book series? Especially when one isn't sure whether this is the end permanently, or just the end for now? How does one wrap something like that up? How many readers will kill me for not showing the [spoiler] they'll think I should have shown? Will my editor be one of them?
These questions don't have answers, at least not tonight. Tonight, I back up the file, and sleep the sleep of the novel-completing just.
I now have four Onyx Court novels.
Good Christ that epilogue was hard to write. Possibly it sucks. I have no idea. What the hell does one write, to end a four-book series? Especially when one isn't sure whether this is the end permanently, or just the end for now? How does one wrap something like that up? How many readers will kill me for not showing the [spoiler] they'll think I should have shown? Will my editor be one of them?
These questions don't have answers, at least not tonight. Tonight, I back up the file, and sleep the sleep of the novel-completing just.
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Date: 2010-09-20 12:46 pm (UTC)Ha! I wish I knew :-)
Congratulations on finishing!!! Can't wait to read it!
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Date: 2010-09-20 06:17 pm (UTC)<puts on sage look> Rocks fall. Everyone dies.
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Date: 2010-09-20 02:27 pm (UTC)Hey, drafts are hard, and so is having perspective. (Insert crack about second person being especially hard to pull off.) Congratulations on finishing, and don't worry about potential suckiness right now. That's what editors and first readers are for.
You have a draft, of admirable length, which presumably contains most of what you meant to put into it. That's a reason to celebrate.
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Date: 2010-09-20 06:13 pm (UTC)<gives draft dubious look>
Well, it will by the time I'm done with it.
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Date: 2010-09-20 07:12 pm (UTC)(Okay, maybe someone did. And then we shot them and hid their body where no one will ever find it.)
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Date: 2010-09-20 06:15 pm (UTC)Finish your book, and decided you needed to watch a movie right away?
And congrats of course.
Tony
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