Endgame, Two Moves Shy of Mate

[dr_pretentious]

Topped three thousand words today.

That kicks ass, even by Nanowrimo standards.

I am going to finish this draft tomorrow. Being this close to finished, and yet not quite finished, always turns me into The Scary Crazy Lady. You know, the one who's mumbling to herself in the produce aisle. That's me, trying to get the dialogue right for my little paper nonexistent people.

The closer I am to finished, the more the spongy parts of the draft seem to suck. There's nothing for it but to speed past done, send copies to the beta readers who have demanded them, and get to work on something else before I'm overcome with remorse over my imperfections.

But, hey, three thousand words in a day.

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[dr-pretentious.livejournal.com]

Well, the draft for a shorter project than the Nano book. It's about 22K today, which is a little long for a novella. I think it'll be done at about 25K, complete with beginning, middle, end, causal links between events, characters actually doing thing, characters deciding things, sex, and violence. There's plenty of other stuff in there that can get cut on the first pass of revisions--sometimes it's hard for me to tell whether I'm looking at a grace note or a digression.

I'm just pleased to have anything that's on the verge of being complete in all its parts, even if it is weighed down by my usual excesses.