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September 16th, 2008 by Paul Daniel Ash

Tonight I was delivered of a rough draft of a novel of speculative fiction, weighing in at 78 pages of single-spaced 12-point Helvetica. After 31 days of labor, I now have this sort of helpless squirming mass to deal with.

Soon, the editing will begin, but for now… I think I’m going to stop writing for a while, stop thinking about writing, and re-connect with the rest of my life.

Thanks to all of you that put up with my using this blog as a scoreboard, and still kept checking in. (I know your IP addresses, don’t try to deny it!)

Thanks so much to all of you who sent me support and encouragement.

Holy shit.

6 Responses

michelle of bleeding espresso writes:

September 17th, 2008 at 9:13 am

Bravo!

And please tell your blog I’m not in Gioia Tauro. I’m looking over my shoulder just considering the prospect.

Boots in the Oven writes:

September 17th, 2008 at 3:30 pm

Congratulations! Now have a drink. Quite an accomplishment!

And your blog pegs me correctly in Austin. Not so exotic.

The Daily Rant writes:

September 17th, 2008 at 11:05 pm

I’ve never had a Kolache!! Can you believe it??

On another note, I see that you read Cryptonomicon – you should check out http://www.highwayhags.com – my new favorite blog. Two female truckers (VERY funny and very intelligent). One of them recently finished that book and did a little review on it.

Enjoy! And congratulations on hitting 50K!

Cherrye at My Bella Vita writes:

September 18th, 2008 at 12:16 pm

Congrats. I’m with Boots – have a drink.

Paul writes:

September 18th, 2008 at 7:18 pm

Thanks, all. Rest assured, a bottle of champagne was happily consumed Tuesday night…

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