*Crawls into the room, panting...* *Staggers over to the desk...* *Slams down a stack of papers...* Fucking did it! The manuscript for Changeling, Book One of the Fey Touched Trilogy, is complete at 108,623 words.
I started working on Changeling in July of 2021. I wrote up to chapter 16, which was about 30,000 words and then stalled. So this June I went back to that first 16 chapters, and I rewrote what I'd already done from scratch, and then launched straight into Camp Nanowrimo in July. But I've been tracking my numbers since July 2021 and these are my final statistics...
Now I just have to edit the monster. I'll be taking a day off today, and then continuing on with the sequel, Darkling, tomorrow. And to celebrate, there's a tiny, final, sneak peek from the last chapter of Changeling, beneath the read more...
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