The End is in Sight

I am running out of steam. I don’t have a handle on how this story ends or where it is going. I am going to take a break for a few days and mull things over. Maybe make a definitive outline before I worry about writing the end. It stands at nearly 30,000 words right now and it is a bare bones draft. I have written at least 15,000 of those words in the past two weeks. it is an incredible leap forward and I finished everything that was already plotted.

Now I will finish the plot in detail, know where everyone is and what they’re doing and what the reader will see. I am excited for the end. It’s going to be action packed.

I’ve been afraid of description lately. Someone once told me to add more dialogue, but now I am ignoring description. Something in me thinks the action will not move if there is description. But the dialogue is becoming redundant because everyone is in the process of finding out information others and the reader already know.

I asked Amanda to help me with story development for the end–she is here and available and we will work in due course. I must acquaint her with the characters and the story. She was very excited when I asked her to help me.

A Slow Down to Speed Up

Found a fantastic outline tool. I have run to the end of what was arleady written/outlined and am going to take a few days now to make a very detailed outline. Goal is to have the outline done by Monday. It will be a lot of work, but it will help keep everything organized and show me exactly what I have already.

I will be taking the month of November to leave this project. I am participating in National Novel Writing Month and I will be spending the entire month challenging myself to winning (meaning writing a 50,000 word novel) the challenge.

My ultimate goal, will be announced later in the week, once I have a layout of where the story is going and what is already completed.

I am struggling to keep everything straight. I overanalyze in general. Doing this outline in a detailed, timely manner is going to be an exercise in throwing away the restraints in my head. I will not overanalyze and just go for big plot points through to the end.

Currently, the book is at 35,000 words, the goal is a short novel of 60,000, which will be filled out during editing.

Oh, boy, progress!

I have committed to 1,000 words a day, at least 6 days a week, if not 7. So far, the goal has been met–I will have to play catch up after this weekend, though, since I am out of town on a road-trip.

Major breakthroughs have been made.

Moving on from Molloy

Haley is currently reading Molloy’s little part. I am now confident that I have started to figure him out and I am very excited to move on.

Minor Setback

So my mom was in town longer than I expected, so I’ve encountered a minor setback in starting. Today is a two-show day and unfortunately, we have adjustments to make to the show, so I won’t have much down time. It’s looking like tomorrow will be the day for major progress.