Day 26 on the 27th
So the day after I reached my 50,000 I told myself I was done.
The trick worked.
I was having issues with getting the story to come to a close and so I convinced myself that I was indeed done so my mind would focus on other things, like planning the Thanksgiving we were hosting here. Well I woke up at 6am on Thursday, normally its 5am on a workday, and couldn’t get back to sleep as my mind was coming up with angles as to a real ending for my book. I came down and over the course of two hours cranked out another 2,200 words in which bare boned out how I wanted the book to resolve a good number of issues.
It still isn’t done mind you, but I managed to tie together about 80% of my loose ends.
I would also say that where I forced a hold on my story the overall story was at about the 80% mark in being done. With the additional outline skeleton its now more like 95% outlined. I just need to get the grand finale figured out.
Today, being the 27th, I’ve been all about eating leftovers and farting every time one of the kids gets near me.
Life is good.
I am thankful.