Deadlines and Doom
"I like deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." - Douglas Adams
I don't particularly like the sounds of deadlines whooshing by, but I seem to be hearing them a lot lately.
There's a persistent little cheerleader in the back of my head insisting that Kingstone can still be finished by the 21st. Finished? Maybe. Presentable? Not likely. Just the other day I found a place where Charlie was filing miserably when she should have been failing. Yeah. I haven't given the manuscript to my readers yet.
Whoosh.
Apparently I was being even more idealistic than I thought when I set June 21st as the tentative release date. I also didn't realize at the time that Kingstone would end up needing the most wholesale changes of any manuscript I've ever written (seven full length ones so far). I don't think there's more than a handful of paragraphs left of the original draft, and only chunks out of the second one.
Funny enough, working on Kingstone this week has been going smashingly. I'm really pleased with how it's shaping up and what's been coming out on the page. It's just not going to be done by this Friday.
So. Question of the week. Have I written the Ending of Doom?
Erm. Hm. Not yet. By the end of the week? Possibly. I'm dancing around it.
A while back on Facebook I saw a link to a list titled Top Ten "Puppy-Kick" Moments in Doctor Who. Not literally puppy-kicking, but meaning those gut-wrenching twists that make you feel like curling up and bawling for a while.
I'm planning at least two of those.
They're in my head. I have the scenes laid out. I haven't put the words on the page. I don't like kicking puppies, even if it's for a reason. (Nee-chan would argue and say I do it too often.)
Death happens. So does loss and separation. It doesn't mean we have to like it. The good news here is that this book isn't the end. There's another one coming, but you have to get through the middle to reach the end.
(Random trivia: Douglas Adams wrote a few scripts for the classic Doctor Who series. I wonder what they thought of his philosophy regarding deadlines.)
I don't particularly like the sounds of deadlines whooshing by, but I seem to be hearing them a lot lately.
There's a persistent little cheerleader in the back of my head insisting that Kingstone can still be finished by the 21st. Finished? Maybe. Presentable? Not likely. Just the other day I found a place where Charlie was filing miserably when she should have been failing. Yeah. I haven't given the manuscript to my readers yet.
Whoosh.
Apparently I was being even more idealistic than I thought when I set June 21st as the tentative release date. I also didn't realize at the time that Kingstone would end up needing the most wholesale changes of any manuscript I've ever written (seven full length ones so far). I don't think there's more than a handful of paragraphs left of the original draft, and only chunks out of the second one.
Funny enough, working on Kingstone this week has been going smashingly. I'm really pleased with how it's shaping up and what's been coming out on the page. It's just not going to be done by this Friday.
So. Question of the week. Have I written the Ending of Doom?
Erm. Hm. Not yet. By the end of the week? Possibly. I'm dancing around it.
A while back on Facebook I saw a link to a list titled Top Ten "Puppy-Kick" Moments in Doctor Who. Not literally puppy-kicking, but meaning those gut-wrenching twists that make you feel like curling up and bawling for a while.
I'm planning at least two of those.
They're in my head. I have the scenes laid out. I haven't put the words on the page. I don't like kicking puppies, even if it's for a reason. (Nee-chan would argue and say I do it too often.)
Death happens. So does loss and separation. It doesn't mean we have to like it. The good news here is that this book isn't the end. There's another one coming, but you have to get through the middle to reach the end.
(Random trivia: Douglas Adams wrote a few scripts for the classic Doctor Who series. I wonder what they thought of his philosophy regarding deadlines.)
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