The First Draft of Patty’s Gamble is Done!

I can’t believe it, but I did it. Tonight I finished the first draft!  It was shorter than I thought it was going to be.  It’s got 18 chapters.  But it’s done, and I have scheduled my editors to look at it so it will be available by the end of this month.

After this, I will take a brief break from writing to recharge.  I wrote a little over 17,000 words in three days.  This will give me time to finally finish editing a book for a friend.  I know this friend will be relieved since I’ve been working on this for a long time.  It’s been so long I don’t even remember when I started.  I don’t make it a habit of editing other people’s work, just in case someone wants to email me their manuscript.  Sorry, guys.  I’m not a professional editor.  I’m just doing this for a very good friend.

While I do that, I’ll also be cleaning up the mess I made in Patty’s Gamble.  I have tons of misspelled words, lousy punctuation, repeated words, and other things that would make a critique group twitch.  But at least the book is done and I have something I can work with.

Now I’m anxious to see how sprinting The Earl’s Secret Bargain will go when I get to it.  I want to get Patty’s Gamble and this edit for the friend done first.  Those are my two priorities.  After that, I will see what I can do with The Earl’s Secret Bargain.