#the idea of giving beela to someone new is...incomprehensible

[ftmerriweather]

Guys I just realized I'm 6 weeks out from finishing the draft of my current novel. That means that, even though I skipped a few weeks, I did one chapter a week last year for Beela.

Current game plan is to finish Beela's third book in edits this year and next (it's long and only going to get longer), let it sit for a month or two, then spend the following year doing all the edits my writing group suggested, as well as the threads I dropped before.

So in 2-3 years, Beela will be query-ready. I've been working on this book since 2016 and the thought that it'll ever be query ready is wild. I want Beela to be out there and all that, but the idea that my book will be published, and this book in particular, is wild.

I remember when I was writing it just to purge the fact that I was depressed and closeted. Now my MC has come out twice and is finding acceptance among their friends