Monday, September 20, 2010

I FINISHED MY MS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Woot Woot! So stoked.

On Saturday, September 18, 2010 at 10:33pm, I typed the words, The End. Man, what a good feeling that was. A little scary, but exciting. It was almost surreal..."What? I'm actually...done?" I started working on this story in January and as I went along, I had very reliable and smart BETA readers who helped me to make the story and writing that much stronger (though I'm still waiting for some feedback on some of the final chapters).

So now, I will try my best to leave it alone for at least a week (maybe two if I can handle it) and then start revsions. In the meantime, I am compiling a list in a special document entitled "Revisions". In this list I am typing out all the things I need to do. For the next week I'll be doing a lot of reading and researching on line about revision and the things I need to be thinking about as I prepare for the process. PLEASE...if you have suggestions about things you think I should think about in revisions, or things you do when you're in revision mode please share.

I will also be doing some research on outlining (I don't know how to do it for crap) because for my next novel I'll be writing, I want to have the whole thing plotted out before me. I'm very excited about that story, currrently titled, The Willow Elves, which will be a YA Romance Fantasy. I know the beginning middle and end, but I think having an outline will allow me to have better flow (and hopefully less bouts of struggle/writer's block) as I write the story. Also, I am writing the new story in 3rd person limited (I think, still debating if I'll do it in omniscient) which is different from my other written novels which are First person past and first person present.

So that's what I'm up to in terms of writing and I just HAD to share. I'm DONE!!!!!!! Woooooohooooooooooooo :-)

11 comments:

  1. CONGRATULATIONS! it's a wonderful feeling, isn't it? Enjoy that giddiness for as long as you can and I hope you get to celebrate!

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  2. YaY! Now you need to go out and celebrate because the next part involves tearing your baby to shreds.

    If you're looking at new outlining methods I did a video on them a while back, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mSyr2jKW0w might help give you a few ideas.

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  3. Hurray for you! Finishing always gives me such a big sense of euphoria.

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  4. Congrats!! There's nothing like typing THE END.

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  5. Congrats! Typing The End is always such a fulfilling feeling.

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  6. Congrats Mel! Yeah, I know I said I wasn't going to be blogging this week, but I couldn't help myself. Remind me to share with you my thoughts on omni once you get into the writing. But first revisions! Yay!!

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  7. Big fat congratulations! Hope you're celebrating, you've earned it!

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  8. Thank you guys so much for all the congrats. It really is such an amazing feeling. So, to celebrate, I decided to allow myself to eat chocolate. You see, I had made a promise to myself to finish my MS by a certain day (and it was a realistic goal) but I didn't get it done so I had to enforce my punishment: if I don't get it done by that day, no chocolate and no rainbow twizzlers for a month (okay so maybe that wasn't realistic haha). But I did finish it the following week, so I had some chocolate. :-)

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  9. Congratulations! Stephen King recommends waiting for 3 weeks, but that's really, really, really hard. And good luck with your next one!

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  10. Late to the party, but I wanted to add my congrats!

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  11. Thanks Theresa and JB :-) I still can't believe it. I'm trying so hard to stay away from it, but I miss my characters so much. I've been so close to them over the past 8 months. I feel like I"m having withdraws. Doesn't that sound insane???

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