Whoosh
Posted by mgnann on July 1, 2009
“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.” -Douglas Adams
Well, I set myself a deadline of finishing by the end of June and today I missed it. I still have about 50k words to write. Some of those don’t have to be done from scratch, some are just incomplete chapters that just need polishing. I blame my real job, it takes up way too much time. But that’s a whole ‘nother blog entirely.
So today I kind of groaned when I looked back at something I wrote about 8 months ago.
I am getting close to putting together the end…I still believe I can reach my goal of having the first rough draft completed by the end of the year. – Me. October 9th, 2008.
Ha ha. On one hand, I’m not sure what I was thinking there. On the other, it can be hard for me to foresee how much writing it will take to properly tell the story. I’m sure I thought of it as, “oh, let me just get these guys to Efegen’s so they can cruise into Taris, hook up with the right people, and execute the final scenarios,” and assumed that wouldn’t take long. Not that easy. Hell, I’ve known how the story would end for a few months, but now that I’m writing the final chapters I find it covers many more pages than I anticipated it would.
Tonight I tried to work on a building chapter that sets the tone for the end, but I wasn’t feeling it. So rather than fighting that and pressing on, I started putting down some bones for the last chapter. It’s been in my head and I need to start seeing what it looks like on paper.
And by paper, I mean on the monitor screen.
