Nearly At The End

Well, National Novel Writing Month is nearly over, with only eight days to go. I'm on the final stretch and can't wait for my novel: The Ghostly Heart to be finished. It's good to have another novel under my belt and that means this will be my eighteenth! I'm going to celebrate it with friends by going out for a slap up meal. I should also smoke a cigarette and drink a black russian- my new 'I've finished a novel' routine. Eighteen books! It still seems like yesterday that I was starting my first book 'Love, Regret and Murder'. I was so young and didn't have the first idea how to write a book.

After this latest speedy effort I'm going back to an unfinished historical fictional book that I started a couple of years ago. It's going to be six hundred pages at least and set in London in 1888. I keep reading back the start and it's not bad, but have to get all my research material fro London before I can begin.

Ah, Christmas is coming fast and I shall travel to London with my laptop under my arm, but will be back for the new year and will continue to write.

Mark Yarwood