My first Assignment is complete.

Just like that, I am done. Yesterday I smashed through the final two chapters of 'The Assignment', the first draft edit is complete. This was a long one, it took me something like 10(?) months to convert the book from 1st person to 3rd person, and coming in at 85,000 words it is roughly 10k words longer than the original 1st person draft. And remind me never to convert a book from 1st to 3rd, or back the other way.

I think I can learn from this lesson that given a deadline to push out an edited book I would fail to get it out on time... Or not. While I wanted the first draft finished, I was writing two other books and editing three  at the same time so of course it took me a while to finish this draft, and there was no need for me to really rush it. Now I'm trying not to think of the fact that the book is far from finished and that there are something like a further 5 edits ahead. I'll think about that later.

What's up next now that I have finished this mile course? For now I am going to relax from this achievement. Then, come Camp NaNoWriMo in, I think it's July, July, I will either start the sequel to 'The Assignment' which was my whole reason for editing the first book so I could remember what happened and how to write the characters, or begin my Dastardious Hollow prequel. I really like the ideas I have for that book and can't wait to begin it, I just have to decide whether I want to write it in November when I have more of a plot and ideas, or write it in July. It's a really hard decisions to make.

But even though I am making all these plans for what to write next, I really don't know whether I will have any time for it. This saddens me because at the moment I am in the big mood to just write every idea I have. However, this online course in Professional Writing and Publishing is taking up more of my time than I thought it would. So that takes up four days of my week, my acting theatre course takes up one day, and I work the weekend. So where in all of that do I expect to find time to write? I'll stop complaining because I know that the key to being able to write is to find those moments in the week when I could be doing something but I'm really doing nothing and use them.

For all those reading this blog, thank you very much and I hope you are enjoying learning about the hardships of being a teen writer. I think I may appear slightly negative and unhappy when talking about everything I have to do and all the time I don't have to do things. This isn't true, it just looks that way. I am very grateful for the opportunities that I have to study and write, and I am very thankful that I have the abilities to do so. I may appear negative about my overwhelming workload, but I was exactly the same when I was unemployed and wasn't studying (I complained about not having anything to do). And because I want people to actually read my blog and take something away from it, I'm going to work on an idea that just came to me. If people read this to know about my life as a writer, then maybe I could help out by actually writing some blog posts about tips for writing that I find useful.

Keep an eye out on this blog, I don't know when I will next upload but I'll try to make it soon and have it involve interesting content about writing.

I'm still alive, and still editing.

I haven't had much to write about on here so I haven't written anything. Not much has changed for me since my last post. I now only have two chapters of 'The Assignment' to write before the book is complete. I understand now what to write as I fixed the plot holes and joined in the pieces that separated the end from the rest of the book. My online writing course is taking up most of my time during the week so I haven't had time to edit.

As well as that course, last week was busy because my future sister-in-law is visiting and we held an engagement party on Saturday. We had to prepare for that, so lots of cooking and cleaning. Then the long Easter weekend, I worked Sunday and Monday, and boy were they busy days! It's completely thrown my week off as I keep thinking that it's only Monday today. It's okay though because I still have the same number of days to study as my theatre course on Wednesday is over for the holidays. We will return to that at the end of the month. Out of both my course that one is by far the best. I have loved every moment and will be very sad when it is over. I have learnt so much, and as I am writing this I really should be finishing a written test I have to do for it. Blah, tests, that's the one thing I don't like about studying.

What else is new? Not much. Waiting for my 9 month anniversary of starting work on Thursday. And I really can't think of anything else interesting to mention, apart from the fact that I got a very belated birthday gift from my amazingly awesome best-friend in the states. Seriously, her gifts are just the best. I love them almost as much as I love her, which is saying something.

Peace and such like out, I'm gone. I'll post a message when 'The Assignment' is finally finished because then it will really be an occasion to celebrate and talk about.