I submitted my first draft for review yesterday. After the initial shock, my alpha reader read the prologue. We haven’t had time to talk about specifics yet, but she seemed rather impressed (I guess having produced a block of 60 pages written in a language not my own in a little over 2 weeks would do that to people).

Yesterday’s session started slowly, as I’m entering a part of the story I don’t know about yet. But discovery writing has its advantages and I wrote a little over 1k in that section : a small description, some characters thought, a little dialog and bam, I’m halfway through the chapter!

The week’s podcast was quite fascinating : anti-heroes. I wouldn’t have put Frodo as the anti-hero (Madame Bovary neither!), but they fill the description! Something to think about. Looks difficult to distinguish between some anti-heroes and some villains. My book has a character who in my head is a villain : he’s unable to let other people take charge and in the end, that’s why he will still be a villain and not a anti-hero of the Frodo kind.