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T-48 and counting
Jun. 13th, 2007 10:43 pmNo words today.
Or, rather, probably 200-300 words of a false start on Chapter 13. Happily, I realized it was a false start within 300 words (The false starts on The Mirador run into the hundreds of pages. Yes, really.), and thus spent the rest of the day trying to figure out how to get from point A (the end of Chapter 12) to point B (the climax of the novel, which I do actually know!) in the approximately 77k left to me, minus however much I need for denouement and wrapping up and things like that. (You know you've reached a watershed in your novel when your remaining wordcount looks uncomfortably tight instead of agoraphobically vast. I'm not quite there yet, but I can feel the pole-reversal coming.)
And I have figured out, if not how to get from A to B, then at least from A to A1. Which is better than nothing.
I prefer tangible progress, but I'll take intangible progress if it's the best I can do.
Or, rather, probably 200-300 words of a false start on Chapter 13. Happily, I realized it was a false start within 300 words (The false starts on The Mirador run into the hundreds of pages. Yes, really.), and thus spent the rest of the day trying to figure out how to get from point A (the end of Chapter 12) to point B (the climax of the novel, which I do actually know!) in the approximately 77k left to me, minus however much I need for denouement and wrapping up and things like that. (You know you've reached a watershed in your novel when your remaining wordcount looks uncomfortably tight instead of agoraphobically vast. I'm not quite there yet, but I can feel the pole-reversal coming.)
And I have figured out, if not how to get from A to B, then at least from A to A1. Which is better than nothing.
I prefer tangible progress, but I'll take intangible progress if it's the best I can do.
