Today I finished the first draft of The Bone Carousel. I have been working on and off for two years on this novel. I took nearly a year off from all writing in the middle of this book because of personal things but the last few months I really got back into it and knocked it out faster than I anticipated.
The end result is a very messy 80k draft, however the ground work has now been laid. I am so excited to start the editing process. I plan on rewriting nearly all of the opening act. So much has changed from what was outlined when I first started. Mostly the beginning of the story, but also a few of the characters need brushing up. I hope to be done with the second draft within the next month or so and then if it survives a read-through by me, I will be moving on to beta readers.
Because this is the first book in a trilogy the ending was a bit tricky. I have never written a series, only stand-alones, so this took a lot of work to get right. But when I finished the last line today I knew I had something great. This is by far my best work to date. Now that I am one step closer, I cannot wait to share it with everyone.
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