If you've followed this blog at all, you'll know what a dragged out process finishing a book is. The mss ping pongs back through various stages of editing, which ranges from story, to chapter, to paragraph, to sentence, to word and then grammar. And everything in between.
But I think Shield wall is about at the end of this process. I had a few things my editor wanted me to look at, and then I had things I wanted to look at, and I procrastinated until today, because I wanted to have a day with nothing else to do but lock myself into a room with the world and the characters, and just hang out with them, in a literary kind of way.
It went well. I was spell-checking by 3pm, and had a chance to take a long walk and see if anything else came to me.
There's a niggling reluctance now, to send it in. But it's time really, and so here goes.
Somewhere, almost out of hearing, a long slow drum roll begins.....
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