The End Is Near!
Well the end of my third Jonathan Alvey novel, ‘Nine of Cups’ at any rate.
I’ve written 85,000 words and have another five or so to go. This close to the end the process of my writing becomes dramatically less linear than it usually is. The scenes that pop into my head are from any time point withing those last few chapters.
It’s fun to write several hundred words just after the big conflict, even tough I haven’t written the conflict itself. The last few scenes are half formed in my mind and I don’ know which will be born first but it doesn’t matter now. The sequence doesn’t ruin the fun of understanding of it – seeing it emerge, and piecing it together, is exciting in it’s own way.
A few more scenes, a couple hundred words to sew them together, and then it will be done.
Well, I say done but it will be any thing but.
It will be written. Written, when it comes to a story, is only the birth. After getting all emotional and googly eyed over the new arrival then comes the raising of it. Edits edits edits. So much work goes into making the story, long after it is ‘done’ . Done is done, but finished is a long way off.
And when it is done – I will start the process of finishing the second novel. Allow myself time away from my new baby. Get some distance and read it with fresh eyes – just as I have done with The second novel ‘Bindings & Spines’.
But while I’m working Number Two into better shape, I hope I get inspired to write a short or two – I just enjoy writing Jonathan too much not to.
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