happyWords: 4,440
Total words: 56,700
Reason for stopping: finished chapter twenty-two.
Music: my 'dead stuff' playlist, and The Last Five Years.
Lilly: doubtless plotting to conquer the world.
According to my outline, I'm rapidly approaching the minimum length for this book. Also according to my outline, I have roughly five chapters left. Now, that's going to leave me with a book that's somewhat shorter than I want it to be...but that's okay, because it means that draft 1.5 will consist, not of editing, but of finding all the juicy bits that I rushed past in my urge to find out what was going to happen next. That's pretty awesome, actually. I love knowing that I get to back-track and add more of the good stuff.
(If I can find a way for 'the good stuff' to include Jason taking off his shirt, I think I'll reward myself with pumpkin cake and a bubble bath. Because the world always needs more of Jason-sans-shirt.)
I'm actually starting to see the light at the end of the seemingly endless tunnel that this book has been. Given that my previous YA book, Upon a Star, took me less than a month to write, I'm really relieved that this one is wrapping up, and more, that I'm still utterly in love with these characters. I can fall out of love with a book -- I usually do, by the time the editing process is done, although I'm fickle enough that I always take them back in the end -- but as long as I don't fall out of love with the characters, I'm fine.
Yay, Clady.
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