4 scenes, nnnghh

How did I add a scene? How? Well it's not so much a scene as it's an expansion of an idea, I guess, but it's leading to a scene and it's a transformation, which means it'll be long or at least detailed and nnngghhh dammit I am so close to done...

... but I won't rush it and I'll be done when I'm done, if only I wasn't so damn tired I'd be finished tonight.... But still. Who knows. Maybe tomorrow. Maybe on deadline.

And do I write the epilogue..? Grrrrr

Soooo close...

Five scenes to go. Well they might not be whole scenes, maybe parts of scenes. Five index cards, basically. And look what we have here:

I'll be a bit over 125K at first draft, but I know I'll go down again when I edit. And before March 1st. Well, maybe. Tomorrow's a crazy day, writing will be sidetracked. But it's so close I can smell it.

107K; bored of Housesitting word counts yet?

Two weeks (almost) and about 12,000 words done...

As you can see, closing in on another made-up word count. 110K is so last month. Impressed that tonight's writing got me to exactly 107K though.

I'd love to tell you the ending is right around the corner, but it's not. I will say that the last half of the last act is coming right up, which includes some shocking revelations, some very kinky material and hopefully at least one slam-bang-thank you ma'am sex scene. I say 'hopefully', I know it's coming. I'm more 'hopeful' that it's good. Funnily enough I always worry!

Anyway. 12,000 words in two weeks is a steady pace (strictly speaking it's 13 days, I guess) but it's not record breaking. It's been a busy couple of weeks and my usual writing habits got disrupted a few times. Hoping this weekend to really put a dent in the final section and start on the downhill slope.

Of course, I have 13 days to go until my self-imposed deadline. I don't feel confident I'll get there, but you never know. Sex scenes tend to go long, and I've got one more transformation scene too, which could be a doozy... we'll see. I'll be pretty close I think. And close counts in novel writing. And horseshoes. And hand grenades. Because I said so....

Hoo-boy... 95K on Housesitting

This weekend was really, really frustrating writing wise - right up until it wasn't.

I have a lot on my mind work-wise at the moment, and a bad mental state regarding other stuff outside of your control isn't conducive to good writing. It didn't help that today I ended up making two round trips to my favorite coffee shop (once to retrieve my wallet from home) and when I finally got there, ready to write, found they'd closed early for the Super Bowl. (WHAT?! People need coffee!!)

Anyway, I found a niche in a chain coffee shop, plugged in, sipped my brew, and finally it started to come together.

Boom. Over 4,100 words. I was actually so close to 95K earlier tonight I wrote a quick scene just to get to it. A good day.

Do I think 110K will mark the end of the book? No, no I don't. I have at least three major, huge scenes left to go, and they tend to average 3-5K... that plus other 'stuff' and I'll be going beyond 110K, I'm sure of it. But hey! It's all good stuff going in at the end, including, I'm pretty sure... my first ever threesome. Uh-huh. We're cranking it to 11....