wow. tired.

February 9, 2006

Despite everything I did yesterday, I did not sleep well and I am very very tired today.

I’ve just finished the last chapter of COYOTE DREAMS. I seem to have started doing this thing where I get almost to the end of a book, get really grumpy at it, write the last chapter, usually skipping the antepenultimate and penultimate chapters (Henry will never forgive himself for teaching me the word ‘antepenultimate’, which I like to use at every possible opportunity) and sometimes one or two more than that. Then I go back and do all the rewrites the book needs and then I finally write the missing chapters. I’ve done this with several books now. I think I’m going to do it with CD, too, rather than struggle through writing those couple chapters. There’s not *huge* amounts of rewriting to be done earlier in the book, but there’s enough.

I suspect this is going to go like this: rewrites tomorrow, edits on FIREBIRD next week, finish rewrites the following week, start PHOENIX the week after. It’d *better* go like that.

6 thoughts on “wow. tired.”

  1. Ah! I am very much unpublished as yet, but I felt like a total failure when I skipped the most important scenes in my manuscripts. Cowardly, living a lie as I pretended to be on the road to publication. Alone in my despair. Now I see that I’m none of the above; I’m just Antepenultimate-Challenged. Thank you for sharing!

    Maybe we should start a support group? ACA? If only so we can say things like, “Hi, my name is Holly, and I’m Anti-Antepenultimate.” ;)

  2. “I seem to have started doing this thing…”

    Hey, if it works, run with it. :)

  4. *laughs at Holly* I only start skipping when I get to the end. But I think an ACA group sounds good. *laugh* “Hi, my name is Catie…”

    *nodnods at Robert* This is the, er, like fourth book I’ve done it on, so I’m thinkin’ I’m in a pattern here. :)

    Those are done, Trip! Or at worst, in need of some TLC. :)

  5. I only skip the ones at the end, too. And only the most important ones… :T

    Congrats on getting to the end, btw. Even in ACA fashion! Can’t wait for Thunderbird Falls. (Every time I ask my hubby to buy me a Luna, he asks, “Is that the sequel to that Urban Shamany thing?” It’s the only one he ever remembers… which means I must’ve gushed more than *I* remember…)

  6. Oh, wow. I SO scramble to the finish when I’m ending books, including skipping big chunks of story.

    So glad to know I’m not the only one, that even pubbed writers do the same thing!

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