jpskewedthrone | Chapter 23 is dead! (Reply)

So I finished chapter 23 today after a marathon writing session in which I produced many words. It didn't end where I thought it would end though, so the "final" scene was bumped to chapter 24. (And now you see why my books just keep going and going and . . .)

In a revelatory moment this morning at the gym, I discovered exactly how this book is going to end. And I mean exactly. The last scene, the last action, and the last sentence. The scene I was contemplating for the ending . . . has been bumped to the beginning of book 2. Are you sensing a pattern here? This is perhaps why "trilogies" end up not really being trilogies. (Although so far my one and only trilogy is actually just a trilogy and this current project looks like it will follow that pattern.)

In any case, I have one week left in which to finish the first draft of this novel. Then there will be a 10 day break while I rush off to Kansas City and grade AP Calculus papers (and try to sell everyone there my books). Once I return, the rest of June will be revisions, revisions, revisions so I can send this sucker in, hopefully in a much smaller, shortened form. Here's the current gigantic, colossal word count!