Yesterday I finished the 7th draft of my latest Corrosive Knights novel.

As you can tell by the multitude of updates regarding this book and appearing of late, I’m making good progress on the end stages of the novel.  As I may have mentioned before, the novel as it sits at this moment is almost complete.  I’d say a good 2/3rd to 3/4th of it is just a grammatical/spelling draft away from being done while the other 1/3 to 1/4th requires perhaps a couple more passes to clarify and compress information.

This novel, like all the ones that came before it, has been a great challenge to write.  To me, writing a novel is like creating an intricate jigsaw puzzle piece by piece and without the idea of what the ultimate “picture” will look like.  You create each piece page by page, paragraph by paragraph and word by word and often you’re feeling your way and linking scenes as you move along.

I’m expecting to finish the read-through of draft #8 in a week’s time -or thereabouts- and, depending on how much cleaning up is required, maybe another couple of weeks to do the corrections on the computer.

I’ll provide updates as they come!