Oh, man. The end of a book is tough. This is when I doubt myself the most.
I’m tired. My eyes are tired. (That’s me, yawning and rubbing my eyes to prove it.) My derrière is tired. My neck is tense. My brain is strained.
This is a novel that has been written with constant interruptions (before, during, and after my move), so I feel fractured. I hope the story isn’t fractured, too. It’s due on my editor’s desk (or rather, via email, on her computer) by Tuesday morning. Not a lot of time for that final spit and polish I like to do.
I haven’t written "The End" yet but I’m getting close. I am currently going through the manuscript and adding a couple more POVs that I realized yesterday were really needed. That’s helping my word count as well. I’m on the short side. I have friends who write long and have to cut. That has never been my problem. Never. I’m pithy.
Okay, yawning over. Back to those new POV scenes.
-rlh-
Do you give lessons in pithy? I’m one of those long-on-words creator of wonderfully (sarcasm there — no one thinks run-on is wonderful) long and complex run-on sentences full of purple, or at least lavender, prose that could almost — but not quite — rival the opening sentence of Dickens’ “Bleak House” that was a page and a half long and full of semi-colons followed by the wonderfully onamatapeic “Fog” that was everywhere and mostly in the courtrooms of the Old Bailey.
What a mess — a deadline immediately following a “holiday” weekend! Couldn’t be worse timing by that editor, if you ask me.
God bless!
Prayers for you as you cross another finish line!! I kind of like the “minor” holidays for writing and working, in general. Doug does, too. All his clients will be taking a holiday on Monday, so they won’t be calling him. He’ll get their work done that day much easier than when they’re “working”! I plan on a good writing day on Monday, as well.