Today is a day of good news and bad news. The good news is I wrote the two words “THE END” today. The bad news is they were words 47,000 and 47,001. I still have three thousand words to go, but no more forward story left. I will have to see where I can fill […]
I hit 45k this morning, but I am definitely running out of gas. It’s amazing to think that the last 5,000 words are actually harder than the first. But I guess it makes sense. The first part of the race, you’re full of energy, excited for the challenge ahead. But the last bit of the […]
I have hit 44,000 words, and I have also hit the end of the climax. Everything is downhill from here. Do I have 6,000 words of denouement? I don’t know, but I guess we’ll find out. But if I run out of story, I can always revisit some areas of the novel that could use […]
“A novelist is someone who remembers events that never happened.” -Jackson Tejada Came up with that thought as I woke up this morning. Checked the internet and it appears no one has ever said that before. So, that’s my quote. Cite me if you ever use it. The reason that quote popped into my head […]
42,059 words written, less than 8,000 to go. I think I may have misjudged my ending and may end the story before I hit 50,000. But that’s okay. If that happens, I will just think of other parts of the story that need beefing up and start writing those out. So far, this has been […]
Just hit 41K, hoping for 42K by the end of the day. So, today I decided to use a trick for my next few words. I’m conflicted about how the story is going to end and I’ve been going back and forth with it, so I decided to have my characters discuss it and see […]
First of all, a huge thanks to all of you who comforted me and gave me motivation this morning. This is the ups and downs of a writer. One moment you’re euphoric over an amazing turn of phrase, the next you’re despondent over the turd that you just smeared across the page. But you press […]
Today, my writing was like molasses. Only 944 words in the space of almost an hour. And that is mostly because I have hit the wall. I am at the finale, and I don’t know what to do. I am going to try to do some more writing tonight and hope that the little elves […]
Got almost 1,500 words in this morning. The finale is actually shaping up. Will it be written? Yes. Will it be good? I don’t know. But the point is to have something for Future Jackson to work with. I should be able to hit 40K no later than tomorrow, leaving me with only 20% of […]
So, we’re coming around the bend to the finish line. A little over a week to go before the madness concludes. This weekend has been a difficult one for me to motivate myself to write. Yesterday, I only wanted to get to 35K and wrote very few words, which put me in a deficit for […]