The topic for this post us "nothing", and of course it is impossible to do a post on nothing. So I've switched it to 'nothing in particular'. Today I finished the first draft of my first novel. The story that's been going around in my head for months finally grinded to a halt at 82,000 words. I started writing my novel as part of the NaNoWriMo challenge in November and completed 57,000 words (the target was 50,000 words). In the following months, I added another four thousand words or so, bringing my total up to 61,000. This month I joined in the April Word Count Challenge set up by the Minxes of Romance blog, of which some blogging friends of mine, Lacey and Suzanne are members. This is how I was able to give myself the push to get the novel finished. So thanks to the Minxes for that. I got bitten by a dog again this week. Thank God I had rabies shots recently. I was walking down the road, minding my own business (very definitely - I was in a wo
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