Curse of the Djinn

I cannot believe it.  My first draft of CURSE OF THE DJINN rolled to a close last night at half past eight.  I typed “The End” at the bottom of 58,795 words.

I sat staring at the screen feeling elated, sad, an ill.  I couldn’t believe it. I still can’t, a few hours down the line.  This is the first novel I completed in one fell swoop and it’s taken me a million years and just over four and a half months. 

The next step is to let DJINN lie to the side for a bit whilst I gather up my messed up head and relax and read. 

There is much polishing to be done on DJINN and I know that I need to rewrite the beginning completely as an introduction to Nicholas.  I want to show him in an action sequence of some sort, as opposed to packing his bags to fly off to meet his dad in Egypt!  Tres dull otherwise.

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