I just finished the rough draft of a novel that I’ve been working on since August, although I have sketches of it going back over ten years. It’s pretty long (around 160,000 words), and is likely to get bigger when I rewrite it this summer. It may end up fissioned into two or three books, if I can find a way to end them without being too abrupt.
I’m in a daze now. I’ve never written a novel before. Does anyone want to share their novel writing anecdotes with me? I don’t know very many people who have also gotten the whole way through a draft. There’s one guy in my writers group who has a finished novel, and I sang with Lemony Snicket in college (I haven’t heard from him since about 1995), and that’s pretty much it.
Any advice? Any publishing horror stories? I have no specific questions, so this seemed like the right forum on which to post.
