Today feels a little unreal.
I’ve just finished the beta version of The Mindborn. It’s strange to think how many versions came before, and very hard to know if I missed anything good along the way, if this version is really the strongest. If the first chapter is strong, or if it would have been better to use another piece of the story instead. But at one point you need to jump, and this is my time.
I also completed the new copyright registration, so now it is official too.
It’s not “done” in the final sense — stories never really are — but it’s a version ready to face new eyes. Thinking that somebody else is now allowed to enter into it, I’m not sure it feels as good as I thought. Sharing it with people who might not get it. I was never an overprotective parent, but now, with my book’s characters, I feel the need to protect them. An unexpected ending, I thought that I couldn’t wait to share them with others.
But now, time for tea, a deep breath, a slice of apple strudel, and maybe, with it, a little happy dance in the kitchen.
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