Over the past few months, I have shared the experience of writing a novel, from story kernel to end, with Clearing of the Way. It’s been a great ride, I put the final touches on it this morning and put it up on Amazon Kindle. Here is the breakdown… I put the first word down on 12/6/2011 and the last on 4/18/12. 341 pages, 67,412 words. Then I let it sit for awhile while I worked on editing the sequel to “The Emperor’s Finest”, and went back to it a couple of weeks ago to look at it fresh again.
What can I say? Overall, I’m very pleased with it, and even more so since it is the first original work to come completely after my stroke. It is definitely one of the cleanest novels I’ve written, editing really meant chasing down all the changes in venue (we did finally decide to set the start in Chicago and forget about New York) and killing more than a handful of oddly placed commas. So, now it’s onward…to the sequel…
Way of the Blessed.
Thanks for taking the time to walk Nathalie and Gideon’s first steps with me. I hope you’ll stick around for the rest of it.
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