First draft finished

I have finished the first draft of my new story. I think it is funny how when I create a story how things can change. When I first thought of the story my main character was a female. But as I started writing I started visualizing the character as a male. when I thought of the main character as being a male it felt right. I did try to stick to the character being a female as I did want a story about a female Jedi but it just felt right to have the main character being a male. I then decided to go with my gut feeling and as soon as I had done that it felt right.

I will just have to write another story about a female Jedi.

I am glad that I have finished the first draft. I am happy with the story so far. I do need to read up about how to write out the fight scenes as I wrote a quick fight version of these that I know I want to pad out more.

Now for the challenging bit. I will start off by typing up the story. I am not sure why but I just like writing the very first version on paper before I type it up. Once it has been typed up I will start the editing process. This is the process that seems to take the longest for me. It is trying to work out the point when I have to say enough editing is enough. One author (I think it was Ian Rankin) said that an author never truly finishes the book. They can always go back and change something.