Sunday 8 July 2007

I've finished writing the first draft of my novel!

Am too tiddly on champagne to type so more info here:

http://callytaylor.blogspot.com/2007/07/novel-progress-first-draftfinished.html

14 comments:

Rachel Green said...

Huzzah!
Well done!

B.E. Sanderson said...

Woohoo!! Good job!

Helen said...

well done!

Chris Stovell said...

Give yourself a big pat on the back (if you can find it after all that champagne!)

Kate Harrison said...

Congratulations! Am now wondering whether to join you in some champagne. Is 11.31am too early?

Kate

Jane Henry said...

Congrats on finishing. Hope you enjoyed the champers!!

CL Taylor said...

Thanks all.

I just wanted to add...

Thank you so much to all the novel racers and to Kate for accepting my request to join in the first place. This group really helped motivate me to finish my novel. Seeing other people finish their novels and reading about the various struggles and success stories really spurred me on. There's so much energy and enthusiasm in this group and, without it, it would be so easy to just add a couple of words to the novel here, a couple there and drag the writing process out for years.

Knowing that people were reading my blog and cheering me on made me feel accountable (in a good way) and kept me writing, even when I suffered an attack of the wobble/wibbles.

So thank you - all of you.

Now I'm going to have a little break from this novel before I get down to some serious editing (which I'll be blogging and moaning about no doubt!)

Fiona Mackenzie. Writer said...

How brilliant to have actually written and finished a novel. You must be so proud. No one can ever take that away from you. Now I want to cry!
Also, you have a full word count bar - I have a thing about them!

Enjoy basking in glory and don't lift a pen for a month.

Kate.Kingsley said...

Fantastic, Cally ~ well done!

Enjoy the rest of your champers, it's thoroughly deserved

Best wishes
Kate K

Unknown said...

WTG Cally. So pleased for you :-) Hope you indulged in some bubbly or something!!!

Zinnia Cyclamen said...

Yee-hah!!! Very, very well done - and 'hear, hear' to your comment about the novel racers.

Cathy said...

Fantastic. Well done!

KeVin K. said...

Well done!



Now go write another.

hesitant scribe said...

Well done! Fantastic! YAY!