Current Project: A BABY BETWEEN THEM
Status: Page 182
Good morning!
I think for the first time in umpteen years, I'm seriously worried I don't have enough story to fill an entire book! This has never happened to me before. I always run at about 282 so I should be one hundred pages from the end, but egad! I don't think I can stretch it out that long. Nor do I want to stretch it out -- that implies all sorts of nasty filler stuff and a slackening of tension and pacing. After staring at the screen this a.m. and worrying about it, I've decided to just write it and if it's fifty or sixty pages short, then I can jump off a cliff, no need to jump now. Ack!
Going to have some family time this weekend and then camping next week, so there will only be a few days writing time. Can't afford it, but this is life and I can't afford not to live it, can I? Besides, what with the book way too close to the end way too early, what's the rush? Double Ack!
How is everyone else doing? (If you want room at the top of the cliff three weeks hence, I'm taking reservations.)
3 comments:
LOL- I'm sure something will come to you to either as fill-in or extending the ending. But I know where you're coming from- I've had that happen to me waaaay too many times!
7000 words this week, thus far! Yeah, I see the end nearing! It always writes faster as you near the end, doesn't it?
Have fun with your family and camping, Alice!
Nice job Paty!
Alice, I always worry I won't have enough to hit that 100K mark, but somehow I always end around 105. I'm having that fear with this one and I'm not even a quarter of the way into it.
Word count wasn't great this week. I spent a lot of time worrying about Eli
Paty, way to go on word count! And yeah, it does gets faster at the end although the last book I wrote, the end took forever for some unearthly reason.
Kendra, know how you feel. Been quite a week.
I think fear of length in the middle is totally predictable!
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