Feeling giddy...
This afternoon, Tuesday, March 27, 2012, the last pages of
How To Lose Your Voice Without Screaming (
the greatest novel of ALL TIME!) came into being. It's a truly amazing feeling to complete your novel, and it feels unreal: your novel is the kind of thing you're only supposed to be
working on. But, miraculously, I'm done. Now, it is something I can hold up in the air and announce to anyone who will listen, "I MADE THIS!! IT IS MINE!!" This is something I have practiced quite a bit with my human children. And they seem to like it a lot. I sincerely hope my book is not indifferent to conspicuous public displays complete astonishment? If so, suck it up, book. You'll simply have to adapt.
Really important background information: I started the novel in the summer of 2009 while sub-letting an apartment in Jamestown, Toronto. I chipped away at it on weekends in the UAE, and while on vacation in Japan, at a friend's office in Koriyama. (Thanks Wild Bill.)
And now, How To Lose Your Voice Without Screaming (
the greatest novel of ALL TIME!) is
done! Which is freaky.
And, wonderful!
I can't wait until you read the whole thing!
Alistair
P.S. call all your Pulitzer and Nobel friends... They read too, right?
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