Just a short post to tell you that after 2 NaNoWriMos and an extra month of writing, my third novel “The Emerald Shower” is done. Well, the first draft is done.

This is by far the longest I’ve written yet (180 000 words as opposed to the 140 000 words for books 1 and 2) and it’s also the one where I’ve written the fastest (3 months), while being the one where I’ve taken the longest from word 1 to the last word (15 months). I have one year of editing ‘The Fifth Compendium’ to thank for that.

I was very pleased with the first half written during the 2011 NaNoWriMo. It was epic with really hard scenes for some characters (I’m still considering cutting off the rape scene because it’s really rough). I liked it very much as I re-read it this year.

Then, there is the second half. It’s becoming more personal, less epic, and goes in directions I never expected. As I said earlier, it feels like this was the second book in the series. I like it too, but it’s very different from the first part.

This means of course that I have a huge editing job ahead of me.

For now, I’m going back to editing. This will be “Shrouds”, which I hope will take me less time than “The Fifth Compendium” and then I’ll get to start my fourth book.

Beware, the revolution is coming in book 4!