Bullet with Butterfly Wings is…..

Finished!

Yes, at 10.30pm I wrote the final line on Bullet With Butterfly Wings after 12 (twelve) years. The last 1000 words flew by, my writing becoming more and more erratic as I ploughed on towards the final confrontation between Alex, Mav and Thiebert. Fortunately I more or less knew the ending (it was getting there that was the trick) and I just had to massage all the plot elements and characters into place. Then I sat back and congratulated myself..

After two and a half hours my right hand aches. Not used to writing that much. Now that the story is finished I need to focus on getting my notes into Scrivener and then I need to process the logic and make sure everything makes sense. The first half of the story was written 12 years ago (and never edited) and plot-holes abound at every corner and junction.

The plan is to focus on getting all my hand-written notes into digital form and then park this story and immediately jump onto something else. And that ’something else’ is either: -

Standoff – fully plotted. Estimated 20k words. Zombies in Hong Kong.
Warp Factory - not even slightly plotted. Half written and abandoned 5 or so years ago. I’ve always liked the story and I love the style (1st person natch) but I haven’t a clue what I’m doing with it. Estimated 10k words.

I’m halfway tempted to jump into Standoff but Warp Factory keeps nagging at me. We’ll see.