News flash - FIENDS OF THE EASTERN FRONT: Twilight of the Dead (a.k.a. the book that wouldn't die) is officially finished! Hurrah! Well, when I say officially, I mean the first draft is finished. Now I have to print the bugger out, sub-0edit the whole thing and input all the changes. All before 5pm tomorrow. Still, let's savour the moment, shall we? It came to 73,889 words as a first draft. That'll shrink a little in the subbing, but nothing too drastic I imagine. So ends my 16th novel. A word to the wise: never agree to write a novel over the Christmas and New Year break. That way lies madness.Now for some food.
5 comments:
Hurray!
Well done.
I think it's time for a large drink and a nap for you old son.
Well done indeed! I have to say, these recent posts of yours about the seeming staggering amount of writing you're doing to meet tight deadlines is breathtaking. I don't think I have the self-discipline to have as many jobs on the go as you do - and that's probably why you're a freelancer and I have a regular office job...! :)
Great! So, then - you gonna start on the second Fiends trilogy next?!?
Rob - a nap? Surely you jest! [I know, I know, don't call you Shirley). I've got a week until the first draft of my radio play is due and a Phantom script requiring my imminent attention.
Paul - well, I spent 15 years in various office jobs, so both environments are known to me. I like the bullpen vibe, but it's not conducive to being a novelscribe in my experience.
Jim - feck off! Although, I have got the urge to write a Fiends novel set on a German submarine, sort of DAS VAMPYR BOOT. And another where Constanta travels to wartorn London, planning to overthrow the British Government: THE VAMPYR HAS LANDED.
Well, you get the idea. This concept can run and run. WHERE FIENDS DARE, THE FIENDS OF NAVARONE, A FIEND TOO FAR, FIENDS ON THE RIVER KWAI...
"This concept can run and run"
Why stop at World War II? FIENDS OF THE FALKLANDS or FIENDS OF THE HO CHI MIHN TRAIL, even? I got a great idea for a Gulf War one - you could call it FANGHEAD.
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