My first novel is done! Or sort of anyway. I sent inthe final chapters on Tuesday - only nine days late! Now I am going back to the beginning and revising. Ever since November, I’ve been handing chapters in to my editor and she’s been sending them back with her revisions.

But Good Lord my brain is tired. What with holding down a full-time job, writing a novel, having a pre-midlife crisis, and going through at least four breakups in the last nine months, I need a vacation! That is why I am going on one next week. I am not bringing my laptop either.

Oh wait, yes I am. I have a long ferry ride and I’m going to work there.

Sigh. I mean - yay! I’m going to be a published novelist.

Well, today is my big deadline and in very writerly fashion I was out getting drunk last night instead of writing. There went my plans for getting up early this morning and getting a *whole* bunch done. Sigh.

I still have a week’s worth of work to do anyway, it was too sunny out, my brain was tired, and…I had a lot of excuses.

And now I also have a hangover.