Golden Age

On January 6th, 2007, I joined a Live Journal community called novel_in_90. On June 1st of that same year, I began in earnest dedication to work on my first novel, which I completed on November 1st, 2007, and then posted a post about with great pride. It is called, simply, Chapter 1, and I have not looked at it twice from that day to this (though I have looked at it once. ;) ) The next day, I resumed work on the Hogwarts Story, which I subsequently finished on the 18th of December, and it also ended up the length of a novel.

Since then, I've noodled around on various stories. I wrote a bunch of a Changeling book before I got distracted and annoyed with how it was turning out. Then I wrote 15k that was supposed to be the lead in to a longer novel, but I wasn't enjoying it, so I cut ended it there.

On April 1st, 2008, I started work on another project, Mastermind, and was enjoying working on it very much, but there came a day - April the 15th, that I found I didn't have internet access (I was on my way to a work conference and had spent the night at mistress_sin's, I remember it very clearly) and I decided to work on a side project that had been formulating in my brain. I finished it as a short story a few days later, and posted it in my live journal.

Much to my amazement, that didn't stop my interest in working on that, and on the 11th of May, I acknowledged that Mastermind had been shelved, and the Golden Age story was now my primary project. I worked on it steadily until various events started to get in the way, and finally I couldn't muster any more energy, and stopped on September 17th, and began to despair of coming back to it.

I'd written little since then, but in late May, lots of talking with swan_tower convinced me that I'd waiting long enough. On June 18th, 2009, I resumed work on it.

Today, well over a year after I started it, I wrote those glorious words - THE END on the end of my third novel.

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That's it. Done. I have now written three books.

:)