Magic Moments! Writing "The End"

The euphoric feeling of two simple words.

I finished my Skies of Fire rough draft! 

I completed a manuscript this month, and after 100,000 battle-borne words and 49 chapters, I finally rounded my word count out with another two: The End.

This story was one of the easiest I've written. Don't get me wrong, I did a TON of research and world-building that often makes things clunky in the beginning, and I wrote SO MUCH turmoil I was crying through parts of it, but Ava and Knox were so vivid in my mind that they were easy for me to put on the page. 

I loved EVERY minute of it. 

Did I struggle with a few plot holes that needed sorting? Yes. 

Did I stall out a few times, wondering what sort of trouble I could get them into that I hadn't written before? Yep. 

I have so many favorite scenes in their story that make me giddy, and yet writing THE END was as sweet and satisfying as always. 

There is still so much to do before Skies of Fire is out in the world, but now I get to do the fun part - the read-through and revisions. Taking the pretty word vomit and making it sparkling clean. In fact, you can follow my writing progress and read a free story while you're at it if you subscribe to my Pretty Word Vomit author Substack.