One down... 99M to go

At last! I have accomplished a long awaited milestone. I have finally finished a story.

Yes, it is only draft one but this is something I've never done before. Even short stories I've written have just been pieces of a larger whole. And I'm even looking forward to the editing process... for the moment. Of course, I literally just finished moments ago so I'm floating on that high. I feel like doing as a friend of mine did when he got his 3rd degree black belt in taekwondo. He jumped around doing a little dance and chanting, "I'm done. I'm done. I'm done." Just picture a guy who's over six feet tall, knows multiple martial arts, owns multiple weapons both bladed and projectile, and wearing a TKD uniform and you'll get the humor.

So what is this story? Last Monday I woke up with this idea clearly in my head. A woman, early thirties, and head of her family by default due to having very selfish older sisters. The dream was the wedding of her now deceased brother's youngest daughter. I took that as the beginning of the story and built it out from there. I suppose, at the moment, this one would be classified as a supernatural romance since that's the primary focus of what I have. As I edit, I'd like to flesh out the mystery a bit more. It's all tied into the death of said brother and the killer now, 20 years later, coming after her and her nieces. Why 20 years later? Prison, of course. The guy may not have been implicated in the death of her brother but he had enough other crimes to his name.

Since I wrote the whole thing long hand (in part because a good bit of it was done at work), I'm off to type it up and start editing.

SK