It's Official: My Novel's Done

Posted on January 24, 2009 by Ben Parr| 6 Comments

I’ll have more to report as I try to take this moment in, but I completed my first novel, a science-fiction thriller, at about 11:00.

Although the story’s done, I still have a lot of work to do. I’m going to take a break from it, read some fiction for fun, and then get this thing printed and do my edits. After that, I’ll be asking some close friends to read it as well and we’ll find out if it’s up to par.

In the meantime, here’s some statistics (as of 1/24/2009):

  • 44 Chapters, 3 Parts
  • 132,109 words
  • 528 Pages in Microsoft Word (double spaced)
  • 4 Years, 3 months to completion (though I don’t think any future novel will take this long again. After all, this is the first of a five-book arc)

I’m finally done. Wow.

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  • http://twitter.com/michaelfidler Michael Fidler

    I just wanted to congratulate you.That's no small task. So it must be time to start on the next one:-)

  • http://michaelfidler.posterous.com Michael Fidler

    I just wanted to congratulate you.That’s no small task. So it must be time to start on the next one:-)

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    [...] you to all of my friends on your support and congratulations! If you didn’t hear, I finally finished my novel yesterday, and I wanted to share some lessons from the [...]

  • Brendon

    Congrats, Ben. Let me know if you want some feedback on it or anything. I worked at a small(er) publisher for a while, so I could help you out with getting the presentation and all that fun stuff up-to-par.

  • Brendon

    Congrats, Ben. Let me know if you want some feedback on it or anything. I worked at a small(er) publisher for a while, so I could help you out with getting the presentation and all that fun stuff up-to-par.

  • Brendon

    Congrats, Ben. Let me know if you want some feedback on it or anything. I worked at a small(er) publisher for a while, so I could help you out with getting the presentation and all that fun stuff up-to-par.