Last update I was down to eight scenes to write and one to re-write. This week I'm down to TWO scenes to write and one to re-write. Boo-yah!
Writing through the story threads has both sped things up and helped stay focused on what I'm writing. It also changed the way I was going on the scenes as the story evolved organically while I was writing it. I'm writing this Monday night and once I'm done I'm going to do the scene re-write to get that out of the way now. The last two scenes I need to write are split between Chapter 5 and Chapter 7. The Chapter 7 scene will be large as it involves a battle in a dome on Mars and I still need to sketch out the area the action will happen in so what I write will be coherent. The Chapter 5 scene I think I'm going to change. It will still contain the same subset of characters, but a little further along on their timeline as what I was going to write is starting to seem a bit boring and superfluous.
I feel confident now that I will finish writing this by December 31, in fact, I'll probably finish before mid-month in December, but I don't want to go counting my chickens just yet.
Current Word Count: 70,032 words
The scarey/weird part is I'm at the point where I need to start seriously thinking about publication routes. I want to publish and I want a physical book - these are things I firm on. After that...things get a bit fuzzy. I have a friend in L.A. I'll send a copy of the completed draft to along with the question "Is this worth getting an agent for?" He has experience in that arena and I trust his opinion. I think I'm in good shape, but I need an outside voice of experience to confirm or deny that.
That's it for now. Later!
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