The Mysteries of Sleep

[queenoftheskies]

Isn't it amazing that, even if you can't say you got lots of sleep, if you got a little more than the night before, you feel a million times better?

Throw a few dreams in there, the really deep, cinematic ones, and it improves you even more.

I think I can write today. I think I can make progress.

Heck, I am making progress. I had 2,040 words by 8:00. Better than yesterday.

I hope to make a dent in the remaining words on my novel today. Tie up some loose ends, wrap up and tie together some plot threads. Then, maybe, I can start to wind down to the finish line.

So, I have a question. Does anyone else start getting nervous or antsy as they come to the end of a rough draft? Yesterday, I seriously had to battle the performance anxiety, though I did win out in the end because I'm stubborn and hung on like a snapping turtle.

Today, I'm excited and enjoying the scenes I'm working on (I had a hard time getting started yesterday.), so I'm ignoring the fact that these scenes are pushing me closer to the end.

Argggghhhhhh...the end!!!!

That's a scary concept. Then I actually have to go back and...and...gasp...see if anything really works.

I'm not going to think about that now. :)

Comments

[dragovianknight.livejournal.com]

It is so unfair that you got the good brain.

I want an upgrade.

Ends of drafts

[madwriter.livejournal.com]

I do, as the endings are often what I have the hardest time with. In fact I've just finished the second draft of the PJF book and I still don't like the ending; it seems too weak / too much anticlimax for my taste. But so far everything I've thought of to fix it requires a sequel and wrecks the self-enclosed book notion, so I'm still plugging away!

[madwriter.livejournal.com]

And I'm getting very jealous of your word count, btw, especially since I haven't done any "new" writing in weeks!

[seajules]

Sometimes I have to tell myself this is only the rough draft and there's still lots of rewriting to be done, and that allows me to keep going. Other times, I have to tell myself a rough draft is a whole lot of work done so I don't give up in despair. *G*

[kimberlychapman.livejournal.com]

Never been scared of finishing...only of *not* finishing. I've completed two books. I've started at least 25.

Although I probably shouldn't count the various Colony blurbs as unfinished, because I do intend to finish them, and it's rather important that I lay out some of the far-off plot stuff so I can insert the necessary background to justify it in the earlier stuff.

But still, I have several books for which I've written complete outlines, even drawn the maps and stuff, but have never written.

Finishing is like gold. :)