ecstaticTotal words: 107,473.
Reason for stopping: once again, it's bed time.
Music: The Rocky Horror Glee Show.
Lilly and Alice: glaring at me from their nest of pillows.
Tonight's word count is a little shaky, since that's the end-of-night total, after a) I wrote for two hours solid, and b) I made a whole bunch of edits, most of which involved deleting (I always overwrite in my first draft, because it's easier to cut than it is to come up with new text at the eleventh hour). So I probably wrote around 3,500 tonight, but as the final total is 2,871, we're going to roll with that. Either way, this is me, calling the time of done:
I estimate a completed first draft by the stroke of midnight on October 30th. I will finish this book before the new year begins, or I will probably have been hit by a bus while trying to do so. Because I am that close to finishing. I know who, and where, and what, and why (which is often more than poor Toby knows).
There's going to be a lot of rewriting, because there always is. There are bricks that need to become pillows, and pillows that need to become bricks. There is dialog to add, tighten, and delete entirely, and there are scenes that need serious revision. But the first draft, the starting point, is going to be done by Saturday night.
All I need now is a white plastic belt.
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