Monday, March 31, 2008
Catching up is hard to do
I've been writing madly. The weekend required the machete. Today required the weed whacker. I fixed chapters 21 and 22. Tomorrow I go in after chapter 23, which is either in the wrong place or a mess. I'm not sure which. I have 79.2K words. Close enough to 80K to feel relatively less panic stricken. I still have no last chapter, but then until I finished fixing stuff, I won't know for sure what's right for the last chapter.
I've heard some preliminary feedback from one of the big Chains (starts with a
B) on
My Wicked Enemy enough to turn my head. So, all good there!
Also in the good news department (bear with me, it doesn't start out that way) last night as I was falling asleep after wrestling with chapter 21, I realized the chapter needed to end a different way. Then, this morning I hauled myself out of bed at 4:25 am, etc, and stopped for gas on my way to the gym. It was then 4:50 am. E.G. Cold and Dark. I did not have my purse with me. This makes it hard to pay for gas. I got home at 5:03 am, changed my shoes and did 30 minutes of driveway torture instead of biking at the gym and writing out my fixes to chapter 21. During said torture, I finally got a glimmer of an idea for the historical due in November. Yay!
At lunch, I worked on it, finished when I got home and then fixed 22.
So, I'm in a pretty okay mood.
Off to bed. Chapter 23 awaits me. I have the machete if needed. Tremble in fear, Chapter 23.
Labels: historical project, My Wicked Enemy, writing freaking writing, Xia
