I spent some time at the Grant County Museum Thursday, researching information and history on the town that I chose to use for my book. I’m a History nut, it’s what I’m going to school for, History.

I had fun Thursday, researching and I learned a lot about the surrounding towns as well. Most of the stuff in this town I used, but I changed names on purpose. My plans were to write a Foreword, something at the beginning, or a ‘Dear Reader’ at the end to explain the changes. I’ll also write a little history of the town as well, which is very interesting.

After two and a half years, I have finished writing the first draft of my novel. All I need to do now is go back and correct all of the mistakes. Hopefully I’ll think of something else to add to it somewhere as I had cut around two thousand words making my word count to almost 32K. Only several thousand more words to add to it in order to meet the minimum word count required for a young adult novel.

In a few weeks, I’ll be going back to school, full time. Which means having to either push my manuscript back to focus on school, or work on my manuscript whenever I can. When summer break arrives, I’ll start working on my manuscript full-time.