On Completing a Draft of My Manuscript

[caption id="attachment_1437" align="alignleft" width="191"] One page of my manuscript[/caption] This summer, I finally finally finally finished a draft of my novel. It took eight-and-a-half years to complete. Longer—more than a decade—if you count from when I first got the idea for the book, which was before I left San Francisco, which was in 2002. But let’s not go that far back. I was still in my thirties then, for God’s sake. ...