Ow, my neck!

[klward]

It's done. Necromance Act III is complete. The second draft totals 175,00 words, which as it happens is exactly what I predicted upon finishing Act I back in December. I finished Act II in May. The reason the final section took so much less time is not that it's shorter or required less changes, but that lacking a day job and with weapons practice washed out for five weeks running I have basically done nothing else except respond to a meme or two. Thus the extreme pallor, bad posture and urge to smite things.

There is still some fine-tuning and continuity checking to be done and this is just the stuff I know about. My eager beta-readers will have to wait a week or so before a truly enormous stack of paper arrives on their doorsteps. On that note, I'd just like to observe how amazing it is that every different agent, publisher and competition manages to request a different set of chapters, synopses and cover letters.  If I may gently remind my betas, you volunteered. Then, while you read, I can polish Crosses To Bear and finish Cursebreaker before attending to the inevitable corrections and tweaks. And then? Well, then I guess it's on to Necropolitan.

I should probably find a job. Maybe clean the apartment. Possibly go out somewhere that isn't a cemetery or full of people practising. But really, why change my habits just because I've finished the book?

Think I'll throw a party.

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