Writing a book is a very, very humbling experience, y’all. It’s up and down.
I was up two days ago. Top of the world up. This book will be finished by NIGHTFALL up. Well…I’m still a ways away. All it takes is one scene that doesn’t turn out the way it seemed like it would in the outline to knock you off your page count goals for a couple days.
I’m close on the scene. The scene fundamentally works, I think, which is to say that the idea for the scene is solid. It’s the execution right now. And I don’t have to get it perfectly right for now…but it does have to have the right bones to it.
I wrote about three pages on it today, several times, actually, and I will probably write those three pages a couple more times. My hope is that I get it right tomorrow and then move on. I really want to finish this current section up before I send it to my cowriter for edits and punchups. I want him to see the arc of the whole thing before deciding if it’s working or not.
And…I am EXHAUSTED tonight.
Night night.