I got close to 2000 words down today. The rough draft of this book is almost done. Wow. Just a few more scenes and that'll be that, then I can go back and read through again, and see what else is still missing and what isn't needed, and what needs to be moved around. And have, so far, three fairly climactic scenes, any of which could be used as the final scene.
One of these still needs to be written but it's what Holly Lisle calls a candy bar scene. A scene that is fun to write, so you write the not-so fun ones and reward yourself with the candy bar scene for being such a good little writer and doing your work. So I'm saving it as the final scene to write, whether it ends up being the final showdown scene or not.
My fella took our little guy out so that I could get a good writing session in today. I'm a much happier person after a good writing session, and I think that maybe my pacing and wandering aimlessly around the house, as well as my slightly glassy-eyed gaze into nothingness, tipped him off that I needed the time badly.
Maybe I'll actually be able to sleep past 4:30 a.m (it was actually 4:00 a.m the night before last) tonight, and without waking up a thousand times.
Okay, break over, going to look at my mind map for this book and see where I need to go next. I can't believe I'm almost there. Wow. Woohoo!
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