/lit/ - Literature

Its over lads, its done. As of ten minutes ago, I finished the first draft of my first novel. It took me 3 years and 3 or so months, but now its over. Save for the editing and revising, which begins, with digitizing it. I wrote the entire fucking thing by hand--nearly 700 pages I'd estimate--and now i've got to type it up. And makes innumerable changes, not just to the grammar, diction, word choice, etc but also to the plot and to character development. I have no illusions that it'll ever be published, much less sell well, much much less get any sort of the lukewarmest praise, but I've finished the first draft. An absolute mountain of work remains to be done on it, but not finishing the first draft. I've done that.