Nothing like typing The End
I’ve only typed the words “The End” once to backspace and delete them immediately. I did it once when I finsished a really tough mss, I figured that one deserved The End. The rest just get a final hit of the save button and I back away from the computer for a break. BUT still there is nothing like the feeling of finishing a WIP at least not for me. It’s a little whoo hoo and a little let down all wrapped into one warped feeling. The feeling of accomplishment is awesome, even if I’m the only person to read it. Of course I do have a couple of friends who hound me to read and they always offer up good advice. And even knowing it is littered with ??s because I am too lazy or wrapped up in writing to stop and research something or find the ‘right’ word as I was chugging along. Those are easy fixes.
The hard part? The next step! This time it was spewing out a synopsis and querying agents. The new hard part? Waiting patiently – yeah right, or in my case not so patiently.