It all ended so fast. DONE! Today, at 17:20PM, I finished my trilogy here under the dome the @Library_Vic reading room. ???#AmWriting pic.twitter.com/ARn4oQr9jQ — I H Laking (@IHLaking) March 23, 2016 It’s weird how time can past so quickly, and you don’t even realise you’re about to lose something you’ve cherished until the moment is upon you. I finished my novel series this week, and […]
Novel Writing 14: Overtime.
75,000 words. Overnight I officially hit a new word count milestone, marking my third novel as my longest yet – and with around twelve chapters to go (by my approximation), there’s no sign of things letting up anytime soon. Current estimates put me in around the 100,000 word mark(!) before editing. Considering that I was wondering about splitting this novel in half at one stage, […]
Novel Writing 13: The Home Stretch.
Sometimes it feels like I’ve been running for a long time. http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view5/3770248/forrest-gump-football-run-o.gif It was almost a year to the day that I started writing my first novel. Since then, I’ve written over 210,000 words. Scarily, that means I’m now in the home stretch. Bringing everything together at the end of this trilogy has been about as challenging as I figured it would be. There are multiple […]
