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Jan. 17th, 2022 10:21 amNovel #4: 54 ~ 55k / 60k
I'm gunning for finishing the first draft because I feel like I'm trapped in this weird psychological loop in which I can't start revising until I finish the first draft, and I really want to revise. I already have a to-do list of revisions to make.
And I think I am on track to finish this first draft by the end of January. (I think. Though next weekend is going to be taken up by DVCon, so I don't expect to get much writing done then.)
But weirdly, it feels like the closer I get to finishing the first draft, the harder it is for me to finish it.
Sigh.
Maybe this is the downside of drafting out of order—I get stuck on the parts that I want to write the least at the very end.
Oh well. Nothing to do but keep trucking and trying to push through.
*Edit: I think I'm stuck because other than the last two chapters, I have two scenes to write, but I feel like they need to be more properly threaded through the story instead of having a bunch of stuff happening all in the same chapter and that might be why I'm having trouble. So...it's possible that I'll just write the ending first and save those two scenes for when I'm doing my revisions. We'll see.
I'm gunning for finishing the first draft because I feel like I'm trapped in this weird psychological loop in which I can't start revising until I finish the first draft, and I really want to revise. I already have a to-do list of revisions to make.
And I think I am on track to finish this first draft by the end of January. (I think. Though next weekend is going to be taken up by DVCon, so I don't expect to get much writing done then.)
But weirdly, it feels like the closer I get to finishing the first draft, the harder it is for me to finish it.
Sigh.
Maybe this is the downside of drafting out of order—I get stuck on the parts that I want to write the least at the very end.
Oh well. Nothing to do but keep trucking and trying to push through.
*Edit: I think I'm stuck because other than the last two chapters, I have two scenes to write, but I feel like they need to be more properly threaded through the story instead of having a bunch of stuff happening all in the same chapter and that might be why I'm having trouble. So...it's possible that I'll just write the ending first and save those two scenes for when I'm doing my revisions. We'll see.
