Final Push

Only 172,000 words on the book and we are finally on the final chapter. Yeah, you'd think "oops, he mistakenly added a "1" at the front of that number. Holy Hell who writes a book that long? What kind of masochistic idiot would do that? Golly, I don't know WHY I can't finish the thing? Ok. Neal Stephenson dabbles in the 10-pounder book class. But I'm pretty sure he doesn't have another job other than writing because he manages quantity AND quality, a thing lacking in these final chapters as we just, for the love of all that is Holy, try to finish this thing off to get it to the editor in a week.
Which, yes, leaves maybe 5 days to edit a book that has four huge major plot-lines and ....no time to blog. Back to the fire.