Huffin’ and puffin’, I’ve finally crossed the finish line. Ozias, Prince in Peril–all 51 chapters of it–is finished!
I shall celebrate with a Cadbury Creme Egg.
Of course, now I have to type it all up, edit and polish it, and send it off to Susan, my editor. It’s a big job. I’d like a bit of snow to pep me up for it.
Meanwhile, yes, Patty has a hernia, we’ve found a doctor, she’ll see him next week and hopefully we’ll then know what’s what. Please pray for us.
Congratulations on the finish — you deserve TWO Cadbury Creme Eggs.
I continue praying for you and Patty, and I have a prayer request of my own: Please pray for my friend John, one of the sacristans with whom I work every morning at church. He’s 89 years old and just found out he has cancer. I don’t yet know of what kind or whether it’s treatable. He had an appointment with a doctor this morning, and the other sacristan and I are waiting to hear what the prognosis is. We’re praying that at least he’ll make it to 90. He’s a real prayer warrior, a very holy man and an example to us all.
I’ll post that prayer request in a few minutes.
I don’t think I can quite manage 2 Cadbury eggs.
Editing and polishing a book can take a lot of time. Congratulations on the completion of your book. But 51 chapters… it must be longer than “War and Peace”, which had 1,225 pages.
Patty will be in our prayers.
Some of them are short chapters. MS takes up 350 legal pad pages, which comes out to just over 60,000 words… not terribly long for a novel.
No, 60,000 words is not really long for a novel. I was somewhat sure the chapters were short. The book you reviewed for me, came in at almost 130,000 words! I now find it hard to believe, I could write something that long. And I had enough material for a few more chapters. If I would have used it, what a tomb of a book it would have been.
A very large book can help with its marketing. As a bonus, when not reading, it can double as a doorstop.
Some readers complained “The Wind from Heaven” wasn’t long enough, they felt cheated. So I resolved to make the next books longer–but I can only write the story as God gives it to me. I really think the work would suffer if I tried to impose a certain word-count on it.
That is certainly true for poetry. A few lines might complete a poem. Whereas, another, may take many pages, or perhaps a whole book.
A big congratulations to you for finishing ‘Ozias, Prince In Peril’!
I can’t wait to read it when it comes out!
We’re waiting on a paper shortage, waiting to publish; and then it’s , and then . So I guess it’ll be a while.