On Thursday, May 17th, the wanderer finished the first draft of her Irish novel, The Voyage of Bran (the first draft of a novel she's ever fully completed). The first 50,000 words of the novel were written during the month of August 2017, and the final 20,000 words were written during the first half of May 2018 (which means the entirety of the novel was technically written during a month and a half-long span!). The finished first draft is 70,883 words, 38 chapters, and 280 double-spaced pages long. On May 28th the wanderer leaves to make her return to Ireland. This time, she will be visiting the Emerald Isle for ten days, staying in turn in Belfast (her first venture into Northern Ireland!), her old summer hometown of Galway, and Dublin. She cannot wait to explore places both old and new, and to collect more inspiration and muse for her Irish novel. This time last year, before she came to Ireland for the first time, her novel was only a collection of ideas and scribbles...