Bleeding Fiction

Woo hoo! I'm very happy to report that I have finally finished Wolf's Rain!! Final tally? 67,539 words and 3 and 1/2 months of writing. Vast improvement over my last novel, which was 100k and 7 months of writing. I don't know if the quality of writing is any better, but the story is tighter and that's good, at least. I may (or may not) relax for the rest of today and then move on to the next project tomorrow; no time to rest on my laurels!

In semi-related news, I edited that essay for grad school yesterday. It didn't need as much work as I thought it would - mostly I just had to get rid of a lot of passive voice stuff, add a paragraph to shore up one particularly weak argument and add in a few more footnotes (since parenthetical citation is the bane of true academica!). I'll print off a few copies at work tomorrow and add it to the growing stack of application stuff. Now if only I could get my references back I could send these things off...

Anyway! Big accomplishment, feeling mighty fine right now. Feel free to either shower me with praise and adulations or try to take me down a peg. Either response is perfectly valid.