Phew!

On By Mick CanningIn A Good Place, editing, Fiction, publishing, writing

A mere ten days after mentioning I thought I was close to finishing the final draft of A Good Place, it is, in fact, finished. This is the second novel I have written that’s set in India, this time in a fictitious hill station in the Himalaya, amongst the English diaspora remaining behind after Independence.

Having discarded two previous drafts, the skeleton of the story is now essentially the plot I visualised way back when I started.

There is a lesson in there, somewhere.

It will shortly go off to a couple of beta readers for their comments, and then hopefully after that it will just be a case of one final edit, then the hard part. I intend to at least have a go at finding a publisher and / or an agent.

But for now, I think I’ve earned a beer.

32 thoughts on “Phew!”

  5. Michael Graeme's avatar Michael Graeme

    Ah, that’s a grand feeling, Mick. Very well done indeed. I’d say take some time and enjoy, but I’m sure your next project is already starting to nag you.

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    1. I’m already deep in a couple of projects, Michael. I don’t seem to be able to just do one thing at a time. At the moment, my main feeling is mild relief that one of them is possibly finished, although it’s tempered by the chewing-the-nails feeling as it goes off to beta readers!

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