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It’s done: the dreaded first readthrough of Hubris is finished. I don’t know if other writers find it as scary as I do to take a fresh look at their work; when I finished The Northerners, I had to make myself wait a full week before going over it, but now I could set a [...]

Hubris – that is, the first draft of Hubris – is complete.  90,000 words have brought me to the most wonderful words to write in all writingdom: The End.  That wordcount, incidentally, makes this book the longest piece of writing I’ve ever done.  That’s not interesting to anyone but me, but welcome to the blogosphere.

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I’ve abandoned my 1000-word-a-day goal, but that’s a good thing. Now I’m sprinting for the finish line. In the last three days I’ve written something like 5,000 words and I’m almost to the big climactic climax of the story. There’s a lot that goes on in the end of this book; it [...]

I just passed the 200 page mark yesterday. It’s a good feeling, but it’s not as exciting as passing 100 pages or 50,000 words. And nothing is as exciting as getting to the last page and typing the wondrous words “The End.”

This has been pretty consistent for me through the writing of all [...]