Great news to share with you this week. Yesterday I finished the final draft of fiction WIP#9, my psychological short story collection. Back in January, I wrote a blog post about my new year goals (which you can read here) and how I hoped to finish this collection in 2024. Not bad to have achieved this goal in the first quarter of the year, hurray!
It probably helped that I have been off work for the past two weeks on Easter break since schools are closed here in Northern Ireland. Not only that, but my little adventurer was ill for the first week, and slept a lot. Since that meant I was homebound anyway, I took the opportunity to turn lemons into lemonade and cranked out the last few thousand words of the final story to get the collection completed.
What next then? Well, from here I will be printing a paperback proof copy to check for typos. I find it easier to spot mistakes in hard copy format than e-copy. I don’t know why. Can anyone relate to that? Once I’ve done another round of checks myself, I’ll print another copy for my editor and brace myself for the red-pen treatment. It’s all part of the writing-editing-publishing process!
Leilanie Stewart 