I can see the ending from my house!

[apocalypsos]

I am in a really good place right now. A REALLY good place. Here's how it's looking:

-- There's still a lot to do. BUT.
-- There are at least two if not three chapters I can done tomorrow in about an hour each.
-- I have a great deal done on most of the other chapters I have left to write, enough so that I string in the dialogue and get those chapters done fairly quickly.
-- There are two chapters I have absolutely nothing for. My plan right now is to step away from the computer, grab a pen and a notebook, and write out the dialogue for them.
-- I will probably not finish the book tomorrow, considering the most I've ever written in one day is 10k. However, I'm at the point where if I play my cards right, I can get it finished on the first. No, seriously.

*fidgets happily*

Comments

[svilleficrecs.livejournal.com]

Yayyyy. GOGOGO!

For the unfinished chapters, perhaps you could try a modified "phases" approach. Where you puzzle out the story line using 20-40 word, non gramatical "throw the basics on paper" phases that each represent maybe a page worth of full prose.

Like, say you know you want the two chapters to cover roughly 25 pages of prose, you rough out the beats like,

. Dean enters bar, brief survey of interior, and he's still waiting for Sam stop being pissy and enter. Why's sam being so weird? Becomes aware of Castiel's presence before he sees him.

. Castiel all but materializes and Dean considers how to keep him and Sam apart. Also, dirty hem of Castiel's coat. Blood? Dean approaches


Etc, just to rough out/make sure the barest bones of the story are there. When it works, you can bang through the phases super quick (since you're not worried about grammar/detail/etc), then you go back and soldier through each phase, turning each one into 200-400 (or so, no biggie if you stray word count, the map is not the land) chunks of prose. The idea is to bang out the story kinks rough and fast, without the drag of worrying about proper writing concerns, then you can switch yourself into proper writing mode without having to be too concerned about where you're going/what's next.

Phases work particuarly well w/ longhand, I've found.

In any event GO YOU. I haven't been paying close attention, so I have no idea *what* book you're working on but I am 100% behind profic ambitions and am sure you can finish in the alloted time. SRSLY.

[akamarykate.livejournal.com]

*waves pom poms*

Go Speed Writer, Go!

[gretazreta.livejournal.com]

Hi... I friended you AGES ago, and since then I've always enjoyed seeing your posts on my flist and reading what you have to say about the world, and clicking your links but mostly reading about your writing process. Without being excessively commenty, obviously. Anyhoo... I thought I'd just say hi, and well done, and happy new year.

I'm so happy your book's coming along so well, you're brilliant and quite inspiring! I hope your 2009 is just as productive.