That was something I wasn’t expecting to write yet, but I have finally completed my first draft of my novel. I even got a bottle of Moet to celebrate with.
More than a year ago I started the first few chapters, without having any idea of where I wanted to go with it. I didn’t even know what kind of genre it would be. I forgot about it, left on my documents with the name “New Book”, until the end of September, 2017. I had just gotten back into reading again and I was loving the Young Adult Fantasy books I was catching up on. Then the idea hit me. That was exactly what I wanted to write and so I opened up that untitled document and started writing. I created a world with a unique magic system, a dark cult that was threatening the existence of the Kingdoms and a girl who was so much more than she thought she could be.
It hasn’t been easy and there’s been times where I was unmotivated, hit writers block and genuinely had no idea what I was doing. But I made it through the tough times and with a target of writing 1,000 words every day, I made progress. Finally, I have finished the first draft and I am over the moon. Standing at 100,405 words and 36 chapters so far, it is complete. I am still unsure of the name yet, however, I have a few ideas of what will fit.
My little book about self-discovery, romance, magic, danger and darkness may be finished, but I am far from being done with it. There is a lot of polishing to do, some plot holes to fill and changes to be made, but I am ready for it all. Here’s to all the editing that’s about to take place.
Well done, busy redrafting my own book at the moment. Got to about 70,000 words and realised I’d quite literally lost the plot. Gone back to the start to see if I can find it again.
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Thank you! I hope you manage to get the plot back 🙂
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We’ll see. Decided to cut the entire first chapter and some other bits of fluff from the beginning so hopefully that helps.
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Wow, I’m so happy for you!! Writing a book is so so hard, and finishing a draft is certainly something to celebrate! I just reached 50,000 words on mine, and I’m definitely in a bit of a slump, even though I have everything plotted out. Ugh.
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Thank you, it’s such a relief to have finished it and I can’t wait to start editing. I’ve been in the slumps, it helps to look at Pinterest for inspiration and jot down more notes for future chapters 🙂 that’s what I do anyway.
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Congratulations! That must be an amazing feeling. Enjoy celebrating because you deserve it!
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Thank you, it really is 🙂
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omg… you are my hero. my first draft is only 22000 words lol
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Aww thank you! 22,000 is still a lot, I remember being at that point and before I knew it I was done 🙂 you’ll get there soon too.
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Maybe 🙂 thx I think it’s all depends on how u work with ur text: I’m usually stream writing and then later – expand:) you?
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Yeah it definitely does! I normally don’t outline but this time I did and I found that it helped (although I did deviate a bit)
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yes, outline helps, true :))
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Congratulations! This is something I want to be able to say one day and it’s so awesome seeing posts like this and hearing about people succeeding in hitting this goal, happy editing!
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I hope you get the chance to as well! 🙂 I can’t wait to start reading through it (and probably cringing at a few things haha)
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Wow, well done!! Over 100k words in such a short time is very impressive! Must be an amazing feeling to have it all on paper now. Can’t wait to read it when it gets published!
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Thank you and it definitely is, feels a little surreal to not have to say “right, let’s write another 1,000 words today” 🙂 I hope you get a chance to read it one day!
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It sounds very interesting and THAT MOODBOARD! That moodboard is gorgeous.
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Aww I’m glad you like it 🙂
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I loved seeing this post pop up in my feed. I remember how accomplished I felt last year when I completed the first draft of my novel. It still shocks me to this day that I /actually/ finished writing a book. I wish you luck with the editing process as I’ve found it to be a very troubling and tedious task to critique your own writing, but it’ll be worth it in the end
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Aww I’m glad you did 🙂 It is the quite the accomplishment so you should always feel proud 🙂 thank you, so far it hasn’t been too bad. It’s a lot easier to revise now that it’s all written
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CONGRATS ON FINISHING YOUR BOOK! That’s so exciting!
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Thank you so much 🙈 still a lot of work to do but the foundations are there now.
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