Beginnings.......

I'm feeling a little emotional right now. Beginnings and endings and sometimes the bit in the middle, can do that to me!

This morning I started novel 4. I had marked the date on my calendar and so the day came, and one way or another I was going to begin. I won't give you the working title for the novel yet. It's best to keep these things and your fictional story close to you in the early stages. Fiction can be like that, it can get messed up by the real world getting hold of it too soon.

Anyhow, the journey has begun, all 1038 words of it, and at some point in the future, probably around 100,000 plus words, the first draft of this writing journey will exist. I don't know the exact form it will take, not being someone who knows the plot of their novel before they write it, but I do know it will mean something to me by the end of it, and hopefully it will be a story people will enjoy reading.

Right, off to make a cuppa.....see you on the other side!

Endings

LAST KISS, is with the copy editor right now, so it is very close to that print button stage. I've said it before, but each novel is an emotional journey, not simply for the characters within it, but for the reader and the writer as well. Sometimes you only know what the story is about when you finish that first draft. There is an awakening of sorts. I know this has happened to me on all three novels, but this time, I have revisited the ending of LAST KISS so many times that it feels like a secret constantly being unraveled, and each time I go back and add in another sentence or two, more of it makes sense. 

Ending are important for all sorts of reasons, and sometimes after writing 100,000 words, not all writers do them justice. I hope I have this time. I really do.