I finished my first draft of The 52 Charity Challenge!! Whoop! Whoop!

It’s currently off at the editors (AKA Harry) to see if turds really can be polished.

I've been told time and again that I shouldn't expect the first draft to be any good (cheers Joanna Penn!) so I'm not expecting it to be perfect first time around.

I set myself the deadline of the 1st of August to complete the first draft for The 52 Charity Challenge. It was about time, it’d been dragging on for half a year already.

Parkinson's Law

I don’t know if you’ve ever heard of Parkinson’s Law. You have / haven’t (delete as appropriate)?! Well this next paragraph will bore / inspire you (delete as appropriate). It's nothing to do with how you interview guests on your TV chat show before you ask.

Basically it’s this. “Work expands to fill the time available for its completion”. So if you give yourself half a year to write a first draft then it will take half a year. If you give yourself 1 month to finish it, as if by magic, it only takes 1 month. (Thanks Chandler Bolt for introducing me to it)

And so it is finished. At bloody last. Time to stop, have a cup of tea and then crack on with the next stage of launching a book. The cover!

Watch this space for a cover design competition coming up in the next couple of weeks. In the meantime enjoy this video of my celebration dance!