The love-hate thing

[pjthompson]

I've always wound up hating my novels by the time I'm writing the last of them, in a I-don't-want-to-do-this-anymore way. Not uncommon, I think. I'm literally within chapters of finishing Charged with Folly, but each writing session is a force myself situation, and I can barely eke out 500-750 words. I don't know why. Usually I get swept up in the "Oh! I'm almost finished!" excitement by this time, but it refuses to come. I know I've probably hated finishing other novels this much, but my perception of the moment (always an untrustworthy narrator) says this has been the worst.

Which is not at all the same as hating the novel as a piece of work. Even though this one has problems and will need some fixing, I'm overall happy with it. I think it will wind up being a decent piece of work once I whip it into shape. Flawed, but they're all flawed in their own way.

I've just got to get over this last little recalcitrant bit.

Okay, all done whining now. For now.

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Comments

[queenoftheskies.livejournal.com]

Oh, WOW. You are so close to being finished!

[pjthompson]

Not close enough! ;-) But yes...

Grumble

[darkspires.livejournal.com]

Where is the next one then???? A certain person might be keeping another certain person waiting since the person of the first part has now acquired a free weekend.

Re: Grumble

[pjthompson]

Didn't you get 26 that I sent you? 27 has a ways to go--it's maybe 2/3s along. If you haven't read 26, you should like it, although there is something lame that goes on that I feel quite insecure about.

Re: Grumble

[pjthompson]

Oops. I should have checked gmail.

[kmkibble75.livejournal.com]

I can understand the feeling... You've been working on it for a while, so it's only natural to want to be done with it. And then you can give it two weeks, and go back over all of it again. ;-)

[pjthompson]

Slave driver! It will be 10 months on August 9, but I hope to be sort of wrapping it up then--which means it will have taken me less time to write than any of my previous novels, by at least five months. Kind of happy about that.

[kmkibble75.livejournal.com]

That's kind of cool... just imagine how quickly you'd be able to write a normal sized book! ;-)

[pjthompson]

Brat. ;-)