Endless endpoints

[pjthompson]

Other quote of the day:

(Actually, the earlier one about simplifying was yesterday's quote.) (Just to be complicated.)





Writingness of the day:

Another significant milestone on Charged with Folly—this morning I wrote the ending to it. Just a couple of paragraphs, but I now have something to aim for.

I'm perfectly capable of beginning a novel without a definitive ending, but I usually won't make the kind of passionate headway I need to finish without that ending. Sometimes it isn't any more than one line, but it's an end spot. Twist as the plot may—going forward, backward, sideways—that endpoint is there reeling it back in. And it's amazing to me how I end up in that very spot. Sometimes I shift the wording, but I always end up in that spot, no matter how much things have changed in the getting there.

I had more than a line for the ending of CWF this morning. Some lines of dialogue with accompanying action. Around 100 words. But the tether that makes all the difference is now in place.

ARRRGGHHH of the day: Actually, the week. It's endless. Fewer and fewer people are here as the week progresses in anticipation of the Fourth of July weekend. I should have taken tomorrow off. The week will never end. And I am only eking out the words, despite the milestones of maps and endpoints. Arrrgghhh.

Comments

[kmkibble75.livejournal.com]

Actually, the week. It's endless. Fewer and fewer people are here as the week progresses in anticipation of the Fourth of July weekend. I should have taken tomorrow off. The week will never end. And I am only eking out the words, despite the milestones of maps and endpoints. Arrrgghhh.

I'm so totally there with you. It'll be hell living through work tomorrow, and a fight to manage some editing tonight, much less any actual new words (not planning on any, though -- I have to read the old Chapter Eight to see what I hafta cover in the new Chapter Ten).

[pjthompson]

I think I'm gonna bail tomorrow. I whined and sniveled and finally asked for the day off.

[kmkibble75.livejournal.com]

Good on you! I probably would have done the same if three other people didn't beat me to it. :-)

[pjthompson]

Curse them!

[pjthompson]

P.S. Congrats on getting nine done, though!

[kmkibble75.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[geniusofevil.livejournal.com]

and who could be ashamed of having Barry as mayor?

[pjthompson]

So of course I sent this quote and artwork to my friend who's a long-time DC resident, being the nice person that I am. :-)

[geniusofevil.livejournal.com]

stubborn, one track mind...I mean, perseverance.

[geniusofevil.livejournal.com]

well, of course!