Finally broke 66,000 words on my novel. That has been the ceiling for about 6 months, as I’ve been wrestling with a particularly troubling passage.
It’s a pivotal scene in the book, setting up the final stages of the story and putting most of the rest of the events in motion, and so it was very important to me that it hit all the right points and made sense. It didn’t before, and it does now, but I had to change a lot of scenes around to get this one to go where I wanted it to go.
I don’t know how many re-writes this particular scene took – certainly more than 10 – but I can confidently say it was too many. (Or just enough?) But at least it’s fixed now and I can get on with the rest of the book.
Evidently it’s all downhill from here. 80% and counting.
Steve! I didn’t know you were writing a novel? That’s great. I’d love to do that one day. Congrats on the award, haven’t seen you around the Flight forums as much these days.
Hey, thanks, Scott!
Yeah, I haven’t been around the Flight Forum much lately because I’ve been real busy. Spring is here, which means LaCrosse with the kids, work is always challenging, and AnimWatch.com is taking more and more of my time. Oh, and then there’s the novel, which I’ve dragged out as long as I’m willing to do.
Need to finish, eh?
Thanks for the note.
-OG