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I'm procrastinating on my last 5000 words

[artsyprincess.livejournal.com]

Hey,
I'm a NaNoer, and I have three unfinished manuscripts, but this year...I'm only 5000 words away from having my 50000 word draft! Ultimately, this work needs to be about 60000 so when I'm a Nano "winner" I still won't be completely finished length wise, and then with editing and revision I'm sure I'll have to add some more to keep it in range. Those last few scenes are turning out to be much more difficult to write than I thought though...so I keep finding other things to do instead. :) I have got to push through to the end, so I can start revisions, but I just can't get into it for some reason.

Re: I'm procrastinating on my last 5000 words

[aeriedraconia.livejournal.com]

Do you know what is making it so difficult to for you to write the ending story? If you can pinpoint the sticking point it might help you conquer it.

Are you sad to say goodbye to these characters? Afraid to have to start a new project from a blank page? Is there some doubt you have about the ending?

Re: I'm procrastinating on my last 5000 words

[artsyprincess.livejournal.com]

Well, I have two sticking points. First, I only have the last scene left on my outline to write and I'm not happy with it, so I want to change it but I'm not sure how I want to re-work it. Second, my 44 scene outline turned out to be a little too short, so I've got to go back into the story and add some more scenes and some more depth to scenes I already have in order to get it up to the final 60,000 (which is the ultimate goal for the piece, 50,000 is just for NaNo). It won't just be padding because I know I have some plot holes and my characters need more depth to be emotionally realistic. I'm just procrastinating on it because with the super detailed outline, getting this far was easy...going back and adding all new material is going to be hard. I seem to be feeling rather lazy. :)

RE: I'm procrastinating on my last 5000 words

[artsyprincess.livejournal.com]

BTW, I finished this up yesterday. It's set aside to cool for a while. Now, on to the next project . . .

Re: I'm procrastinating on my last 5000 words

[aeriedraconia.livejournal.com]

Congrats! Good for you.

What's the next project?

Re: I'm procrastinating on my last 5000 words

[artsyprincess.livejournal.com]

I think I'm so insane for attempting it that I'm afraid to tell anyone. LOL It's a short piece for a contest (that will probably never see the light of day). For some hairbrained reason, I got this idea for a medieval romance. I've never written anything that wasn't contemporary, so I'm not sure if I can do this. Well, I can do it, but I'm not sure it will be any good when I get done with it. :) I was looking at some stuff online about various authors. One romance writer, Shannon K. Butcher, said that when she was starting out she wrote "great heaping piles of suckfulness." I keep laughing about that. I'm working on one of those piles myself.