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first draft

MENEWOOD!!

The first draft of MENEWOOD is finished!!

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First draft of Hild is finished

I finished the first draft of the first volume of my novel about Hild. It’s huge: 976 pages (more than 200,000 words). I’ll lose a lot of that in the rewrite, of course, but it will still be long. Submitted as proof: Photo taken with crapcam (sorry about that). It turns out that 976 pages […]

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