Finishing a novel is a rite of passage. It means that you can.
I felt this way after I finished Ghost Horse. Like suddenly everything changed, and I knew something about writing I hadn't before, and even if the next one was just as hard I'd have more understanding of what I was doing.
(You can all laugh now. Ghost Horse wasa 25,000 word novel. But as someone who started with short stories not because she ought but because she was better at and more comfortable with them, it was a really big deal.)
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Date: 2004-08-20 07:46 am (UTC)I felt this way after I finished Ghost Horse. Like suddenly everything changed, and I knew something about writing I hadn't before, and even if the next one was just as hard I'd have more understanding of what I was doing.
(You can all laugh now. Ghost Horse wasa 25,000 word novel. But as someone who started with short stories not because she ought but because she was better at and more comfortable with them, it was a really big deal.)