Exciting news – I have finished the first draft of the novel. I am actually more emotional than I expected. It is a milestone that I have been doggedly working towards for eighteen months and I feel a certain amount of relief that I have finally got there.
That is the good news. However, there are still many, many hours of work. What I have produced (I think) is a strong outline. I now have to go back, take a chapter at a time and build on the character and description elements. This should hopefully be more freeing than the process so far which has been slowed by the significant amount of historical research that I’ve needed to do. A key element will be to feed the creative side of my brain and, as I have written here before, just have fun with it.
Oh yes, I also have to keep reading and researching for my thesis. I aim to take some time off at Christmas but until then it is heads down…
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