I literally
just finished my first edit pass through my steampunk
novel. I finished the manuscript about two months or so ago and I've
been letting it sit, getting some distance from it be before doing my
own beta-read. As far as the last 25K words or so go, it was the first
time I'd read them at all. I can't tell you how excited I am to find
that I really like this book! I honestly didn't know if the story would
hold up, if it made sense, if it was loaded with contradictions and
inconsistencies that would have to be corrected, etc., etc. I can
confidently say it does, it does, and it wasn't. Yay! I haven't felt
this good about a project in a long time. I still have to go through all
my tracked changes before sending it to my beta readers, of course, but
wheeeeeee! That clearly hasn't dampened my enthusiasm. ;-)
I hope everyone who has chosen to participate in NaNoWriMo this year is
steaming merrily along on their own works! I might have to start a new
novel this month myself just because I can. Hee-hee!
