scratch

Last night, I was holding Jynx while laying on the couch. He had somehow moved to where he was upside down along side of my body. He hates being upside down and his position looked uncomfortable, so I attempted to shift him upright. That was a bad decision.

My motives were pure and I didn't think I did anything to warrant what I got. I know that it was an accident since there was no hissing, growling, or even clawing to proceed the scratch. It just happened that Jynx ended up on my head with claws extended to help him from sliding. My lip received the scratch from one of the claws. That sucker bled for at least five minutes after that.

I'm trying to finish up my novel, Tech Fear, but my writing group has some reservations about the ending that I wanted. I've come to the conclusion that I need to scratch my ending and go big or go home. I've put too much effort in to this novel to ditch the whole thing. My writing group has suggested that I kill the last five or so chapters of the book. I just can't do that since I am trying to set up a third novel in the series and there are several plot lines that haven't been finished up. But, I also know that this novel deserves a good ending or nobody will be interested in a third book in the Fear Series.

I'm toying with a bunch of ways to end the novel. A lot are so cliche that I want to puke just thinking about them. There is also a plot device that I was saving for the sequel, but I am wondering if I couldn't incorporate it into the ending. That could then carry over to the third novel and give this one the ending it deserves. It's a bit of a cliche, but I can stomach it more than the other endings I've thought of. Then again, maybe I just need to get the ending down and then play with it more to make it not so cliche and make it completely palatable.

Scratches suck. But the bleeding eventually stops (both the lip and the literary kind).