I am painfully aware of the fact that my announcing here that my novel Extremadura is now on this day finished is of absolutely no interest to anyone.

This minor drawback however can not stop me from bellowing the news of its completion as loudly as I possibly can from the towering turrets of castle Zax.

It is a fucking triumph, not for anyone but myself, this i'm ready to admit, but it is still a wonderful feeling.

If you have ever attempted a novel and have actually finished it and are happy with the result, you'll know exactly how I feel.

The torture of working so hard on and off for several years when I doubted I would ever complete work that I would be happy to live with, those doubts have gone.

There was so much time when I thought I was wasting time, but after I began, I was commited and giving up was never an option.

The last few weeks when I knew I had it nailed have been very satisfying.
The editing was rewarded as the work became tight, (tighter).

Once again I know this news will be greeted with total and complete apathy but just for today I don't care.

I set out to write a novel and I got it right.

Now all I have to do is sell it.

Over the course of writing the novel, several people asked me this question:

"How do you go about writing a book?"

For a long time I thought the answer was so obvious, I couldn't be bothered to answer them.

The longer I spent writing and searching for inspiration or for the right word that would fit the right line I was writing at the time, the more I thought about how to write a book, here's what I came up with.

First, you'll need a table and a chair, a stack of A4 paper, a sharpened pencil, an eraser and a dictionary.

Take a sheet of paper and write on it the letters of the alphabet.

When your done tape the paper up on the wall at eye level.

That's it. That's all you need to begin writing a novel.

What you then have to do is to arrange the twenty six letters into words and write them down on hundreds of sheets of A4.

And that's it.

Oh, you would be advised to have lived an eventful life before you begin writing.