12.08.07
Ten Points
Harvesting Blueberries Update: Had a good, 4000 word night last night, which jumped me across six plot points faster than I would have expected. In my defense, I’d mangled the outline to a point where those six points were really only me trying to stretch out two points’ worth of conversation to make up the Big Twist Conflict. By going back to it, however, I’ve realized that I’ve got ten or so left. I’m at 92,000 words, and I’m taking my time with this ending, pacing it naturally and keeping things moving along smoothly. There’s a handful of additional scenes being added in– I have to make up a final outline here to map out everything that I want to get into the ending together, but overall I think I’m about on track for maybe 110K, or 120K if I get really lucky with the Twist Fairy bringing me more wonderfully unexpected scenes of character interaction.
Of course, GASP is today, so I’ll be doing that. I might get home in time to do some more writing– I don’t want to lose too much momentum, especially given yesterday’ post– but we’ll see. Besides, I ought to leave slightly early anyway due to the Parkway West having some nasty construction late tonight. Catch you folks tomorrow, hopefully with an update.