Day: January 22, 2015

I just can’t shake the feeling that I’m not done with the book I finished today. I’ve revisited it several times, adding little bits here and there and I still have the feeling that it’s just not done, that I’m forgetting something really important.

I want to read it, but I sort of don’t, because I’m afraid of what I’ll find.

On the other hand, I do want to read the book I’m about to get back to, the one I left off at 13,146 words in the middle of a major action scene, meaning it should be easy to pick back up.

I’m debating the wisdom of reading the unfinished book first, and then the finished one, so I can have a bit of distance. Then again, what’s distance really good for when you’re just looking to see if the story is satisfying?

And why doesn’t it feel done? What does it need from me at this point … besides another 10,000 words that I’d rather not write on a book I already know isn’t going to sell? This was a book written for me, and it’s supposed to at least make me happy.

… a few minutes later …

I added another little bit to the book. Now it feels more complete. I’m still not exactly happy but it’s better.

Anyway, I closed the document so I wouldn’t be tempted to touch it again until I’ve read it. We’ll see now what I think after I read the thing. :)

Which is great news. I’ve ended up with 1,183 words this morning. My timer’s sitting at 3:04:13.9. I’ve been writing since about 8 o’clock this morning but breaks eat up a lot of time. I get stiff if I sit too long and I know it’s not good for me so I can live with that. :)

I’m sending this to my Kindle and I’ll be reading it later today or tomorrow (in between the paperback formatting work I’m going to do instead of write), and today I’m going to keep going on another book. I’m hopeful the ending will turn out to be good enough as is. If not, I’ll add another short scene, but I’m not doing that until I can read the whole book and see how I feel about it! Why do the extra work only to realize I’ll need to cut it out later?

 

I should stop making predictions about my days because I invariably get it wrong. Yesterday wasn’t a good writing day, not because it couldn’t have been but because I just didn’t get much written.

Today is going better, but a bit slow. I’ve managed to make it to 325 words in about 2 hours, after deleting bits and pieces here and there in the last few chapters. I actually think the story in this book is done. I’m just having trouble wrapping it up so it feels done.

I needed the break so I wrote this, but I should get back to it. I’m hoping when I come back to the blog it will be to say I’m done.

I really want to get back to one of the other books I’m writing. I’m about 13,000 words in on the one I’m most anxious about and I’m far enough from the end that the writing should go a lot faster than the writing I’ve been doing on this one.