I am pleased to announce that, as of today, I have completed the first phase of my novel, “Furious,” by completing the first draft of the basic story, coming in at 30 single-spaced pages and 17,000 words. Since the standard length for a novel is anywhere from 40-120 thousand words, technically I’m almost halfway there. But only technically; in my process, there is still a very long ways to go. True, I have built with this story the basic foundations, defining essential plot points and characters. But it is still very rough, with some parts that could actually qualify as finished novel pages with complete narrative and dialogue, and other parts that are merely one sentence descriptions of what may become whole chapters; and everything in between.
