The Second Draft

This blog is short, and it is late, and both these statements have the same cause.

I realised that as General Winter Festivities start tomorrow for me, I should probably get a bit more editing in before I am too full of food to be sufficiently motivated.

Well, apart from a 3-hour break to go and see Wicked, which was excellent, I’ve spent pretty much all day at my keyboard.

I am therefore delighted to report that I, simultaneously a year late and a week early, have finished the second draft of The Owl in the Labyrinth.

It is 26,000 words shorter than before. The plot has changed, a bit. Some characters have been cut, which at least means they are nominally still alive. The same cannot be said for some other characters. It is much the same but it is also very different.

I think it’s a good story. After 2 years of writing it, it had better be.

Now… now this draft wings its way to my proofreaders. They’ll have a look, point out all the flaws, and hopefully I won’t spend another year fixing them all.

But it’s finished. Again. For now.

I’m a happy man.