The End
My body is heavy, my head slightly fuzzy but in a good way, pleasure is seeping from every pore. I have a faint taste of apple in my mouth and the muscles in my neck have finally un-knotted.
I have the urge to lie in a bed of silk, eating grapes from a platter whilst being stroked by beautiful men. I am slowly returning to the world after being somewhere else for some time.
I have finished the sequel to 20 Years Later. And yes, it does feel like I have just had an amazing, prolonged period of lovemaking.
I am deeply happy, relishing the sensation of achievement and still feeling the bliss of the last word typed and the last file saved. But I know this, like all other feelings, will fade, so I’ve come to press as much of it onto the page as I can, like catching a butterfly and stealing some of the dust from its wings.
Whenever I am in a particular mode I forget what it’s like to be anything else. Ask me how I write the first draft of a novel in a month’s time and I’ll have no idea – that knowledge will be locked away. Ironically someone emailed me to ask for advice on how to write serialised fiction about a week after I’d been sucked back into dedicated novel writing, and I simply haven’t been able to answer them satisfactorily. But when I pick up the Split Worlds again, I will.
So I suppose that means I should write a post about how I write the first draft of a novel in the next couple of days. But is that interesting to you? I have no idea.
Tell me if you want to know more, for now I just want to draw you into my arms, to give you the warm embrace of a writer released from her novel at last. Let’s look at that sky, filled with its dramatic autumnal clouds, and marvel at the beauty of the world.
For tomorrow, the doubts will come. And it will get ugly. But today, oh today, life is exquisite.
I’d love to hear your thoughts about writing a first draft.
Glad you finished though. So proud of you! *hugs*
Congratulations! This is fantastic. And yes, I’m interested in the how you approach that first draft!
Good heavens, is it warm in here?
Congratulations, Em.
Congratulations and well done, Em! Absolutely we want to hear what it’s like.
Very proud of you!
Congratulations Em! Glad to hear you’ve finished the next in the series.
Thank you for sharing that sweet moment x
Congratulations, Em. Thank you for sharing the moment 🙂
Congratulations! You make my writing speed look positively tortoise-like.
I’d love to hear about how you do it. It’s still a mystery to me.
Em
“I have the urge to lie in a bed of silk, eating grapes from a platter whilst being stroked by beautiful men.”
You’ve clearly been spending far too much time in the company of the Red Lady …
Superb. Congratulations on reaching the end of Book 2!
Em, I am so happy for you and I want to feel that bliss you are feeling.
Also, I would love to hear your thoughts on a first draft. You have a great deal to teach us, my friend.
Hugs to you!
Well done Emma! Enjoy that cup of tea, you’ve earned it.
For God’s sake, make that backup now!
Then go off to eat grapes off your beautiful men.
🙂 Congratualtions.
Big WOOT and hugs all around Em! Fantastic news, and Yes, I’d love to know more about how you did it. I have procrastinated long enough now and need….something!
Congratulations!
Congrats, Em! Truly wonderful news, and a beautiful description of your post-drafting feelings. *loosens collar* ahem. 😉
Just wanted to say massive congratulations, Emma. Impressive and important achievement getting the first draft finished!
And this is what you write when you finish a novel! Which would mean that the romance scenes that you actually focus on must melt the page…I need to go and lie down for a bit…
“I have the urge to lie in a bed of silk, eating grapes from a platter whilst being stroked by beautiful men.”~I do love how your mind thinks! Congrats on that first draft!
Congrats! I would love to her about how you did it.
Yay! Can I read it? 🙂
@Kate – I might let you read the 2nd or 3rd draft as a beta reader. But only because I love you so very much. x
@Caroline – Blimey! Yes, I have, haven’t I?
Thanks everyone!
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!