The Book Six Saga

On Saturday 11th December 2004, Jess and Hannah finally finished Book Six, which had plagued them for over 18 months.
To hear more about Book Six and why it was such a pain up the arse, go here.
For everyone else, here is the story of how Book Six was finally finished, and the celebrating that ensued.

On Friday 10th December 2004, Hannah came over to Jess's for the weekend. She brought with her the evil b*st*rd that was Book Six. The girls were just past half-way through 6.3, and had at least 100 pages to go.

Our intrepid authors settled down to watch The Return of the King: Extended Edition with a set of felt tips and several glasses of wine at the ready to aid inspiration. They wrote throughout the film, but by the end (after midnight), they had only just got to the end of 6.3. Things were not looking good, although Hannah, in a haze of wine and macadamia nuts, ventured, "Wouldn't it be great if we finished Book Six this weekend?"
Jess, in a similar haze, just muttered something about Hobbits and went to bed.

The next day the girls awoke bright and early. Hannah had had a dream about Gerard Butler and proceeded to fantasise about Tomb Raider 2 all day, but even this didn't deter them from a full day of book writing, breaking only at lunchtime for jacket potatoes with salad cream (try it; it's yummy). They stormed through Book Six, the plot whizzing off into total insanity, but were still short of finishing by the afternoon when they started getting ready to go out for the evening. They decided to take the book with them, so Hannah stuffed some felt tips in her bag and they headed off to catch the bus.

After some bumpy writing on the bus into town, the girls went straight to HMV to buy Tomb Raider 2, because Hannah couldn't control herself any longer and she had convinced Jess to buy it since it was Chris Barrie on a DVD. They then went to a lovely Japanese restaurant they frequent and ate lots of edamame beans.

Our lovely ladies then went to one of their favourite pubs, The Turf, and sat around a brazier to ward away the winter chills as they wrote more and drank JD and coke (Hannah) and gin and tonic (Jess). They then rolled off to The White Horse, and wrote yet more, before rolling on again to The Eagle and Child, where they bedded down for the evening and wrote furiously, fuelled by more JD and cokes, gin and tonics, crisps and peanuts.

Just as the barman called time, Jess and Hannah finished Book Six. Although somewhat addled, they managed a drunken hug and cheered a bit. They also scared some guys who were sitting opposite them and wondering what the hell they were doing and tried to recite the address of this site to them, with little success. Lads, if you're reading this, we're sorry.

The girls skipped (literally) to the bus stop, nearly being hit by a car, and went home. When they arrived back at Jess's, they decided it would be a really good idea to watch Tomb Raider 2. So they went upstairs, posed for some drunken pictures, took off each other's makeup, put on pyjamas and dragged their duvets downstairs, where they ate and drank Smarties and gin and lemonade (Jess) and crumpets and hot chocolate (Hannah).

The girls finally crawled upstairs after TR2 and went to sleep. Book Six was finished, and all was right with the world.

DISCLAIMER: Please note that these
authors were very drunk at this
point in time.

Do not attempt to write an
entire novel in one weekend at home.

Everyone has an addiction. Some people smoke twenty cigarettes a day. Some people drink four pints a day. Hannah tidies her house six times a day.

During one of these tidying sessions Hannah found three unused orange exercise books that, presumably, at one time, had been taken from their school to use to write Book Six in. She brought these over to Jess's house when she next came over for the evening and the girls decided to have a funeral... of sorts... to celebrate the death of Book Six.

The girls tortured the books as much as possible as a final farewell. They were torn up, used for origami, eaten, written abuse on and set fire to.. There was much rejoicing and the entire experience was very theraputic.

We would like to point out that, although it seems that Hannah is wearing the same clothes as she was on the night of the finishing, she actually has 32 identical turquoise zip up cardis.