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This blog is just to record my experience of writing a story. That is something I have wanted to do all my life. I guess it is now or never.

I am just doing it for fun. I do not really intend to publish it. Mind you, I shall give that a try if I ever get it finished :).

The blog is only intended for me to keep a diary of my thoughts and for some of my close friends, especially those at the Richmond Writers' Circle (bless them for their patience).

If you have found your way here by accident, comments are welcome - especially the kind ones.

If you are, like me, attempting to write your first novel, please share the ups and downs.

Thursday, 30 January 2014

The end of Part 1 (At last!)

Despite not having been too diligent with this blog I have pressed on to the end of Chapter 10. So now most of my cast are bobbing up and down in the Thames, having escaped unimaginable horrors. Phew!
I think I'm about 70,000 words in to a first draft and two thirds of the way through the book. That might mean it will be too long to please publishers as I think I shall be adding more words in the second draft when I shall be trying to figure out my many plot problems and discontinuities, Not long ago, I left a character out of a scene I had placed her in in the previous one. But I am pressing on.

I have mixed views of the Richmond Writers Circle in this regard. On one hand at least I have to get a scene (usually 1250 20 2250 words done every week, But on the other they can't be too unfinished if I'm going to inflict them on my colleagues.This means that I can;t push on just scribbling away to get the fist draft done as I might otherwise. On balance I think this way is the best and I shall just have to be patient. I am still aiming for a complete first draft by the end of June.
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