"I Did It! I Did It!"

Title to be hummed to the tune of the song!

But yeah, I've done it—finished Part 3 of  WALL2.  Cover your ears for the "Great Shout" (reference: Patricia McKillip's The Riddlemaster of Hed—a seminal and fantastic trilogy, so if you haven't already read it, hie thee to a book store or library!)

You'll recall on Saturday that I thought I was closing on the target fast and hoped to see you on the other side? Well, 'the other side' turned out to be Sunday evening and not Saturday as I had first hoped, and 14.5 hours, 5437 completely new words written and 3134 revised—but we got there. This is it, the other side.

And you know what else, my gut is telling me it's good, that I've nailed it—so now I'll just have to find out whether all those editors and my official readers agree! (The one reader who has seen most of Part 3 so far does agree—but his is only one opinion, albeit a reliable one up until now!)

Where to from here? That would be Part 4, but if the Muses are kind, the story arc will be fulfilled and Part 4 will be very much epilogue to the main—and I hope, to use Mary Victoria's word, "rambunctious", action in Parts 1, 2 and 3.

Although of course, being a Helen Lowe story, it is all about danger and wild flights, sword fights and intrigue, as well as "dark treachery and conflicting loyalties", there is also a little bit of romance in there—because much of the action takes place in a part of Haarth, which while being most famous for its heavily armoured knights, also as a long tradition of "springtime love" …