Whew! Contract is not lost in the mail, but rather had to go back for some further negotiations. That’s cool, I just like knowing where it is. :) Other than that, had more epiphanies last night about the state of this book, and I’m suddenly getting all the threads tied together. The last question is whether or not it’s going to end where I think it’s going to or … if it’s not. :) I thought I was on the last day, story-wise. There might be one or even two…
gym, writing, stuff
*yawn* Went to the gym, yay me! Had a pretty nice workout, in fact. I needed it. We went to dinner at Aladdin’s because I was too starved to wait the hour and a half it’d take to cook ribs, and then trundled home where I sat down to write some more. Ended up with a total of 2800 words for the day, 2500 of which were useable, so overall I’m pretty pleased with that. And I’ve fixed the Horrible Mistake which was slowing me down, and I had a…
an assortment of things
Wah. No contract. Must email Jennifer. Email at work today announcing the merger between my parent company, AdvancePCS, and Caremark, has been approved by the FTC, which means… not a great deal to me personally. Eventually when the deal closes it’ll mean some retention bonus money here and there, which is always nice. I ate a truffle after lunch and spent the next forty minutes or so fighting with cravings for more sugar-sweet stuff. I discussed it some with Starling, whose theory is that cravings are triggered by eating something…
DELETE DELETE DELETE
DELETE DELETE DELETE. Sat down to write this morning, got 300 words written and realized Jo doesn’t *have* her car for the rest of this book, so I had to go rewrite the entire end of the last chapter (not done with that yet) and change a bunch of stuff around which is probably okay because the things I’m putting in are things I was thinking last night needed to go in during rewrites, at least, and well, hey, look. Rewrites. o.o Anyway, so I made my quota but it’s…
such a mess.
This book is such a mess. Not the disasterous mess it was at the beginning of this year where I had to rewrite eighty quazrillion words, but still a mess. I just finished ch. 29 and I think I’m pretty close to right on schedule for wrapping up at ch. 35, but there’s a whole *lot* of fixing that needs to be done with this book. I’ve been taking notes on what I need to fix. It’s questions of pacing and timing, mostly. Motivations, somewhat. Possibly I need to add…