Actually I finished the manuscript (as far as the story is concerned) about a week ago. But today most of my major edits are done - this means that everything is in the right tense - I annihilated most of my adverbs and adjectives and am pretty much satisfied with the project. Now of course in doing this I discovered two things I am going to redo/rewrite that is chapter five and nine (or is it eight) of part three of the book. But until then the completed manuscript is off and in my agent's inbox.

So here are the numbers:

1 book

3 parts

21 or 35 chapters (depending how you look at it - 1 part isn't written in chapters but is sectioned off)

284 pages

89,271 words (and that's the end number even after I cut tens of thousands of words).

And I'm going to celebrate - not tonight got class - not tomorrow or the next day - I close on a house - not this weekend - gotta prepare for a signing - I'll celebrate - uhhhh - sometime soon. So until then...