Sage!

[osprey_archer]

I finished a draft of the Sage novel! Oh my God, I actually have a draft! It only took... four years to complete, oh wow, but I wasn't actively working on it for most of those four years so that's not as bad as it sounds.

I walked over to the ice cream store to celebrate, and got one of the chocolate-dipped cones and the chocolate got a bit melty in the hot sun and it was delicious, and I am contemplating buying myself this Breaking Cat News mug to celebrate a bit more.

Then I got out A. S. Byatt's Possession, which I intended to read for the 2016 Reading Challenge "a book published before you were born"... only to discover that the book was published in 1990, at which point I was already tottering around and learning important lessons about not chewing on books.

I was 100% sure that Possession was published in 1980. It's very disturbing to realize that I was so certain and so wrong at the same time.

I'm still going to read it, because I've been planning to read it this month for aaaages and also I talked evelyn_b into reading it along with me. (Join us if you like! We could be a peculiarly dispersed little reading group!) But clearly I'll need a new book for the challenge.

Comments

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on finishing! That is wonderful!

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I might give it a quick final polish before I send it to you, but hopefully it will be ready soon. (Don't worry about getting it back to me quickly or anything; I should probably let it sit fallow a bit before I begin substantial edits on it anyway.)

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

That'll be perfect.

I'm looking forward to the second half of the story! (But of course I'm going to read from the beginning)

[vcmw]

Congratulations!

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[sineala.livejournal.com]

Congrats!

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[khiemtran.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on completing your draft!

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

Thank you!