Completion

Today, I finished my first book. Well, since I've already established that it was written years ago (a decade, dare I say it), I've technically finished rewriting my first book. It began with one corny sentence and an even cornier title.

First Sentence

This had to be one of the hardest books I've written in a long time. It was mainly due to the fact that I wrote it over the winter and that's my worst time of the year for anything semi-constructive. When I returned from Florida earlier this month, the beautiful Indiana weather inspired me to once again hop in the saddle and write away. In less than three weeks, I wrote over 100 pages while the first 100 pages of the book took...5 months.

Anyhow! The book wraps up just as I imagined with a flame of glory and suspenseful battles and scenes atop mountains and glaciers. I love having a theme for each book and this one centered around winter. I can't imagine it's because I spent the entire winter slaving over the damn thing.
Whatever the reason, I am officially done. Well, nearly. It's time to edit it and hopefully have it out to the publisher by the end of June. I have finals to worry about until Tuesday but once those are over with, I'll be once again engrossed in the pages of this novel, rewriting, rewording, and reliving the excitement I felt the first time I wrote it.

Last Sentence

Just as clarrification, that's not four books. There are five books to come after this in a series of six. And yes, Microsoft Word, I do know that's a fragment sentence that I might want to consider revising.

Tarry a while, O Death, I cannot die
While yet my sweet life burgeons with its spring;
Fair is my youth, and rich the echoing boughs
Where dhadikulas sing.


Tarry a while, O Death, I cannot die
With all my blossoming hopes unharvested,
My joys ungarnered, all my songs unsung,
And all my tears unshed.


Tarry a while, till I am satisfied
Of love and grief, of earth and altering sky;
Till all my human hungers are fulfilled,
O Death, I cannot die!

Travels

I want to go on a road trip to all the great historical landmarks of the United States. I want to visit Washington D.C., Philedelphia, the scene of Lexington and Concord, the south to see plantations, and then West to see the great Grand Canyon. Then I want to travel east to Greece and then to South America to see rainforests and waterfalls that are actually bigger than me.

And then I'll settle in Florida because there's nothing better than a warm day in the sun on the beach.