Grand Unified Fae Theory \o/

[fannishliss]

I finished the first draft of my second novel yesterday: 82,971 words.

\o/

yowza!!!!

I am still in shock.

All I can say, is thank you!  Y'all have encouraged me in so many ways.  Every comment since I first established this LJ in 2007 has been part of my growth as a fiction writer.  I am so grateful.  Watching other folks take on Big Bangs and NaNos gave me the nerve to eventually try it for myself.  Over the weekend someone on AO3 kudos my post-5.22 story, the Promise Verse.  It's what I think of as my first novel, and I'm still really proud of it.

It's been wild watching myself progress from my safe zone as a poet -- drabbles, ficlets and stories around a thousand words -- to my first semi-bang the 12000 words Dancers at the Lake, to the Promise Verse, to my 2011 33,000 word Nano, to "crossing the finish line" with 50,000 words in 2013 Nano, and now, finishing the Novel that I first conceived back in, I kid you not, 1988, as a undergrad doing creative writing.

wow!!!

Thanks, y'all, for celebrating the writing life, for being fannish and enthusiastic, for creating communities where we support each other.   You rock!

Now on to the mammoth task of editing this thing. I'm also signed up for three challenges that I'm super excited about.

Happy St Patrick's Day -- another Snow Day!  We are going to go see Veronica Mars.  :D

PS the Fae in my icon is a Sylph.  :D

Comments

[elliemurasaki.livejournal.com]

*pompoms* WOOOT!

[fannishliss.livejournal.com]

yay, thanks!

[chomaisky.livejournal.com]

That's a great accomplishment! Congrats!

[fannishliss.livejournal.com]

thanks!

sometimes these Rats help celebrate!

[monicawoe.livejournal.com]

I'm so excited!
This is the one I've seen excerpts of yes? In concrit posts?

Grats!!!

[fannishliss.livejournal.com]

I think I posted one chunk of it when someone asked to see a work in progress. :)

Oh, and I did post a little bit of a previous incarnation.... so that was different. :)

Thanks for the kind thoughts!

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! it's great to hear, and you should be very proud of your achievement!

[fannishliss.livejournal.com]

thanks very much!

[paperbackwriter.livejournal.com]

Congratulations Hunny!
That's just amazing! *hugs you* : )x

[fannishliss.livejournal.com]

thanks!

[ex-logospil.livejournal.com]

You are awesome, most beloved! :-)

[fannishliss.livejournal.com]

thanks so much!

[glovered.livejournal.com]

Ah! Congrats!

Which challenges are you signed up for?

[fannishliss.livejournal.com]

winter companions, which is a Doctor/Jack comm
big pretzel (lighthearted Supernatural)
and
Antichristmas (Demon Messiah and/or Boy King of Hell Sam Winchester!)

[jpgr.livejournal.com]

Congrats to you! I've been writing short stories since high school, but nothing I would call a novel.

[fannishliss.livejournal.com]

I wrote some short stories... and I primarily wrote poetry... but it took joining in with fandom on LJ before my stories got longer, so I definitely credit fandom with my growth as a writer in that respect. :)

[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

that's some accomplishment. go you! \o/

[fannishliss.livejournal.com]

thanks! I am stunned. There is a lot of work still to do --- but at least it is mostly there, and actually exists. :)

[tifaching.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! What a great feeling that must be. :)

[fannishliss.livejournal.com]

It is a weird feeling!

This novel is crazy. Who knows what will become of it. But I had to write it, and now it exists! wow!

[desertport]

Yay! Way to go, Liss! <3

[fannishliss.livejournal.com]

thanks! a poet writes a novel! what am I even!

it's full of literary criticism... :P

[digitalwave]

Yay, sweetie, that is such wonderful news! :)

*hugs*

[fannishliss.livejournal.com]

thanks! hugs in return! :)

[develish1]

belated congrats, but they're still valid, right?

[fannishliss.livejournal.com]

yes thanks! :)