Chapter 12 is done.

[jpskewedthrone]

Well, after much suffering and thinking and writing and rewriting and trashing and epiphanies, I managed to finish chapter 12. *heavy sigh* Here's the word count:

Hmm . . . the wordmeter doesn't seem to be working. So here's the basic version with no cool graphics:

92250/100000 or about 92.25%
Well of Sorrows

I managed to start chapter 13 today as well, getting 1390 words done even tough today was the first day of the new semester. Somehow, I managed to write between work and the gym, then wrote again after the gym. Really, the hardest part is getting your ass down in the chair. But it does help that I actually knew what was going to happen at the beginning of this chapter, unlike chapter 12. The words flow much easier if you can "see" the scenes and where they're supposed to be going. Hopefully that's a good sign that the rest of the book will fall together well. Maybe I'm over that "muddle in the middle" part of the book.

I can always hope. *grin*

Comments

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

Really, the hardest part is getting your ass down in the chair.

Depressingly true, though I've noticed that just sitting there staring at the screen doesn't actually seem to work. It appears one has to put slightly more effort into it than that. Harumph.

[jpsorrow.livejournal.com]

I can actually get things done by just sitting there staring at the screen . . . just not actual writing. *grin* Usually it's figuring out plot things, worldbuilding things, why the hell my character acts the way he does, etc.

But yes, eventually fingers must more on keyboard.

Can you be part of the Book Discussion?

[maiaarts.livejournal.com]

I have been asked to host the book discussion of The Skewed Throne at The Empire of the Cat, starting the 3rd week in February and going for 4 weeks.

Would you be able to be part of this? I can start a thread that is "questions for the author" if being part of the main discussion is too time consuming.

Needless to say I am really excited and raring to go!
May be you could post about it here in you LJ to get more folks to come and join the discussion?
Thea

Re: Can you be part of the Book Discussion?

[jpsorrow.livejournal.com]

Of course I can be part of the book discussion. How much a part depends on the busy-ness of school and such, but I can be part of the main discussion, and try to answer question on a "questions for the author" thread. You might want to ping me just before the discussions start, so I remember to check back on a daily basis, rather than my every so often check at the moment.

And I'll certainly announce the discussion here at LJ.

[davidbcoe.livejournal.com]

I always find that those middle chapters of any book are something of a slog. Early on, with my first several books, I'd have a crisis somewhere between halfway and two-thirds of the way through. I'd suddenly decide that there was no story there, no book to write, no series worth reading, no hope of a career. Then I'd figure it out and by the time I was 80% done I'd be telling my wife how much I liked the book. Drove her nuts. I still hit mild doldrums in the middle of each project, but I seem to have moved past the crisis thing. Here's hoping you're past the doldrums on this project. I hope the rest of it goes well.

[jpsorrow.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I'm hopeful it's the end of the slog as well. Like you, I panicked on the first few books after contracts were signed, but now I fret. Hopefully fretting will lessen into just mild worry at some point.

[lessa-lynn.livejournal.com]

At least you actually manage to get things from your head to the computer. My stuff usually ends up on loose paper in binders that get "lost" for months, or never leaves the creativity corner of my brain. *grins*

Wierd as it is, I have the same problem with papers for grad school. I know what I want to say, and how to go about saying it, but getting it into comprehensive word form is a pain. Somehow, it manages to work out, and with good results.

*crosses fingers* Good luck with the rest!

[sylvia-rachel.livejournal.com]

W00t! The finish line approacheth!