My WIP is no longer IP! As of this moment, after eleven months, weighing in at 534 typed pages, my manuscript's first draft is finally FINALLY done!!!
When if first conceived this work, "The Sparrow's Fall," I thought on a grand scale: Game of Thrones meets Redwall (minus the sex and actually using real animals...) I started on Valentine's Day 2015, same day I moved into my new apartment. I was working a new job with a very unpredictable schedule, got married a month later, on top of other challenges. Then, I had a breakthrough with short stories and wanted to give up on the project all together. I realized after about 250 pages that I was way in over my head, having never written anything on this scale before with so many characters (part of me wonders if it was a mistake to go full epic-fantasy with the story, but that remains to be seen).
But now it's done and I know I can come back to it later or never again. A year has gone in the blink of an eye. I hope I'll want to come back to this world again, because I was on fire when I started. A lot of things changed. New characters appeared out of no where. The ending was not what I had planned. To be honest, it kind of puttered out. I just got up this morning and realized "Oh, it's going to end here. How 'bout that?" It was one of those, "Great. It's done. Get it out of my sight!" moments.
I could make a whole list of the things I learned whilst writing this book, but I'm just too TIRED.
Thanks to my Olivetti typewriter for not going up in smoke and to all of you you kept telling me not to quit. Now I can move on with a clean slate.
When if first conceived this work, "The Sparrow's Fall," I thought on a grand scale: Game of Thrones meets Redwall (minus the sex and actually using real animals...) I started on Valentine's Day 2015, same day I moved into my new apartment. I was working a new job with a very unpredictable schedule, got married a month later, on top of other challenges. Then, I had a breakthrough with short stories and wanted to give up on the project all together. I realized after about 250 pages that I was way in over my head, having never written anything on this scale before with so many characters (part of me wonders if it was a mistake to go full epic-fantasy with the story, but that remains to be seen).
But now it's done and I know I can come back to it later or never again. A year has gone in the blink of an eye. I hope I'll want to come back to this world again, because I was on fire when I started. A lot of things changed. New characters appeared out of no where. The ending was not what I had planned. To be honest, it kind of puttered out. I just got up this morning and realized "Oh, it's going to end here. How 'bout that?" It was one of those, "Great. It's done. Get it out of my sight!" moments.
I could make a whole list of the things I learned whilst writing this book, but I'm just too TIRED.
Thanks to my Olivetti typewriter for not going up in smoke and to all of you you kept telling me not to quit. Now I can move on with a clean slate.