0!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm Finished!

Huzzah! I'm not officially finished with writing the first book. All 41 chapters are completely written out. I'm feeling incredibly great, like I just accomplished something that a part of me has been telling myself that I couldn't do. It's crazy and awesome! Now I know that this isn't the end of it, I've still got to type up everything I just wrote and then spend a long, long, long time going over and over everything until I can publish it, but the step I completed today, I feel, was the bulk of the work. I'd like to think of the rest as the spit and shine process. It's just cleaning things up from here on out.

When will I start typing everything up? Um, I'm not sure, I want to take a little time away from writing to work on some other things I have to get done, but I don't think I'll feel good about letting it sit for more than a couple weeks, so I'm guessing I'll get back to work on this some time in mid-July.

I'm very happy to have finished the writing and am looking forward to getting to perfect it. So until then, I'll type to you later.

Progress:

Title: ?%
 
Planning: 100%

First Draft Handwritten: 100%

First Draft Typed: 66%
 
Second Draft Typed: ?%

1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just finished the chapter I've been working on, which leaves me with only 1 more chapter left to write. I'm in disbelief about it to be honest. After over two years of steady writing I'm nearly finished writing the first book. I mean, I know that a lot more work has to be put into it, but the bare bones is almost done. There will be no figuring out how to write out large plot lines or how to put my planning into coherent paragraphs for a while. It's a very nice feeling.

As for the next and final chapter I have to write for this book, I plan to start it tomorrow if I have the time. If I don't finish it tomorrow, which is highly likely, I will have more time to work on it Friday.

Man, my brain is feeling fizzled, I really knocked that last chapter out quick and I'm starting to feel the side effects. Well I'll take some time to rest and post back later.

2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That's right, another chapter down. I've only got two more left. It's weird to actually be at this point, to be able to say that I only have two more chapters left to write feels so great. Anyways, this chapter turned out better than I had expected in certain parts and not as well in others. Overall I think I got the points I needed to make made, but I will have to do some heavy editing when I eventually type this one up.

Well, I don't see why I should waste this writing crave I have going on, so I will go on and start the next chapter. The second to last chapter. The chapter that is before the final one. The chapter that's after the many that came before, but is so close to the end of the fist book. The chapter that....right....well perhaps I should just get to writing then.

Type to ya' later!!!!

3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yep, I finished the chapter earlier today. I feel like I zipped right through it. It's about a medium sized chapter and I think it went well. I've got no gripes about it as it stands. I don't know when I'll get the chance to work on the next chapter through. My schedule is a bit booked for the next couple of days, but I'm hoping that I will be able to get a significant amount of work done on it Thursday. I'm so close to finishing I can taste it or maybe not "taste" it. I don't really know how the end of a book tastes.

That's all I have to update at this moment so until next time then.

Four More Chapters Left

Well, it's taken a while, but last night I finished writing another chapter. This leaves me with only four more left to write. This chapter was the second part of a two chapter storyline that I felt needed to go over well since the characters introduced in it are going to be reappearing in the later books. Did the chapters turn out well? I'd say so, I feel like I was able to bring more to them than I had originally planned and the only thing that I think hurts the chapters significantly right now is the fact that certain parts are rather quick due to me just wanting to get out what I had to write. I'm not too worried about this since I still have to type them up later and it'll be tremendously easy to expand upon them then.

You may have noticed the new look to the site. I guess blogger came out with new templates and stuff since the last time I posted so I figured I'd mess around with them a bit. I think it looks okay, maybe a little busy, but kind of nice, a little bit more original and flashy than before. I'll try it out this way for a while and see if I get sick of it or not.

Today I don't have any work so I do plan to do a substantial amount of writing. I don't know if I'll get the next chapter finished today, but I do hope that I'll be able to knock out at least half of it.