Six days before a book is due is probably not the best time to decide thirty thousand words need to be ripped from it, the rest needs to be stitched together and re-written, and the end needs to be completely fixed.
On the other hand, I’m getting an increasingly solid handle on what needs to be done, and I’m feeling rather perky about my doom. It’s going to be a very busy weekend, but the book will be much much *much* better for it. I may or may not get it out to the people who’ve volunteered to be beta readers, though: my talents are many, but I don’t think rewriting 30K in *one* day is among them. Three, yes. One, no.
Too bad I didn’t get a printout a month ago when I was feeling uncertain about the bloody thing’s path.
Back to hacking and chopping.
Use an axe better for hacking & chopping *LOL*