I'm There
Not THERE, but there.
You know the place. Stage Two, Chapter Fifteen of Elisabeth's Dreaded Manuscript Stages. The point where I am sure I will never get all these plot points outlined on my notebook into my book. The point where my eyebrows are in jeopardy. The point where I'm willing to hog-tie one more child that interrupts me when I'm in the flow.
*sigh*
And yet I keep plugging along because - finally - the end is in sight.
How's your writing coming this week? And what stage are you at?
You know the place. Stage Two, Chapter Fifteen of Elisabeth's Dreaded Manuscript Stages. The point where I am sure I will never get all these plot points outlined on my notebook into my book. The point where my eyebrows are in jeopardy. The point where I'm willing to hog-tie one more child that interrupts me when I'm in the flow.
*sigh*
And yet I keep plugging along because - finally - the end is in sight.
How's your writing coming this week? And what stage are you at?
Labels: Writing
posted by Elisabeth Naughton at 8:48 AM
7Comments:
LOL, I know that place. It's not fun and somehow it's worse than being at the beginning of an MS.
Hogtie a child? Oh, yeah. I wanted to last week when I was working on writing a NEW last chapter for HOTM. I just wanted everyone to go away and leave me alone . .. and of course they wouldn't.
Keep plugging away. You can do it!
I see the end but I just can't quite get there... I have two possibly three more chapters and I'll be at the end of the first draft of OIP, but I received the galley for Perfectly Good Nanny yesterday, so I have to drop Maeve and Zeke and proof the galley.
Don't pluck all your eyebrows or you won't look good when you accept your Golden Heart award! ;)
Sympathy. I've been at that point for the last 4 months or so. All because I DIDN'T keep plugging on. So you keep going---don't loose momentum--and eyebrows grow back!!
Right now, I'm at the almost-ready-to-restart stage. Which is nice. Another day or so of exorcising the teaching beast may do it.
Lin - they never listen to what *we* want.
And yeah. I think this point is harder than the beginning of a ms. Though I have issues there, too. LOL
LOL, Paty. Good point. I'll have to find some other OCD trait until Nationals is over - just in case. ;)
Woohoo, Wavy! Yeah for summer break, eh?
Hope things are going better now, Elisabeth. I'm 60 pages from the end, but I have visitors at the moment, so it is hard going. I still hope to be finished by National, though :) .
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