Not finished

I thought Harbouring was going to be my last novel. As retiring broadcaster Kim Hill has said recently said: it’s better to leave before you’re pushed. But it seems the habit of writing is too ingrained in me. New stories keep clamouring to be written.

Now that a new novel is in the third draft stage I am wondering if I should have resisted the urge more rigorously. But then I realise I have always felt this way before I let go and send the manuscript off to a publisher. There will, after all, be at least a year of rewriting, considering new ideas, developing my characters. And of course getting the ending right.

All this is assuming a publisher will accept the manuscript. We’ll see.