First draft complete!

I finished the first draft of The Exclusive yesterday afternoon! I ended up with about 82,000 words. I imagine I'll add 2,000-3,000 words in the next draft to clean up a few things related to the ending. I'm now in the same place I was about a month ago, when I blogged about what I wanted to write next.

Yep, exact same situation right now. The Exclusive gets shelved for a while--probably three weeks to a month--before I start going back through it. I'll come up with a revision plan and work on improving the book during its first revision. After that, it will go off to Beta Reader Supreme for both a bigger-picture look and a proofread. After that, more revisions.

My thoughts on the process of writing a first draft via Twitter:

2,000 words today! That wraps up the first draft of my WIP. Time to put it aside & try to forget how awful a first draft can be. #amwriting

— Matt Adams (@statomatty) April 8, 2014

Now I have to figure out what to write next. This is perhaps my least favorite thing ever.

— Matt Adams (@statomatty) April 8, 2014

It's so much easier for me to actually work on a project than it is to pick the next thing to write.

— Matt Adams (@statomatty) April 8, 2014

I've got a list of things I can work on next. Just need to pick one and outline it. I love outlines. Kind of.

— Matt Adams (@statomatty) April 8, 2014

I've started the querying process on one of my novels. I haven't seriously queried a novel in a very long time. In my next blog post, I'll write a little about why it's taken so long for me to query projects. I'm sure it'll be a thrill.