I finally finished the first draft in the first week of January. It came in at around 115,000 which I am happy with as a starting point.
I've now started the editing process which I am maybe four weeks into? Today I got up to chapter 9. I am finding that I am not changing major chunks of it, just checking for errors and making sure it is consistent. The first 6 chapters or so had been written up to about three years ago I think so that's a long time for things to change.
I was really looking forward to this phase of things, though at the moment with the majority of the way still to go it is a little hard going. Once I get to about chapter 20 I guess the end is in sight so that should motivate me enough to press on for the finish.
If I could get it done by around March that would leave a good amount of time for the next stage of things to get done before the summer, which is still when I would like to have something ready to send to an agent and/or publisher.
So things press on. Progress is slow but moving along.
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