Why I love writing, #325

[sallytuppence]

It's like...

It's like a snarly tangled knot and you have to pick at it, and pick at it, and then you find the right end and pull gently and wallah! A piece of string.

Yes, I've finally worked out the ending of Book Two. I wrote the very last scene on Friday, on my day off, and it is just right, and it sets up really nice tensions for the

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[_stranger_here]

That's wonderful. Savor the feeling!

[sallytuppence]

Thanks, K! I really am savoring it. Like endorphins.

[jennreese]

Just Yaaaaaaaaaay!

[sallytuppence]

Truly. You know how long I've been fretting about this. Figuring it out is such a relief. I was starting to think that I was going to screw it up, but then--it really is like magic--everything came together.

It's still not perfectly perfect, of course, but the main parts of it are set. AND I wrote the first chapter of The Book With Dragons In It, and planned the second. Actually, this is not a good week at work for a writing flurry to set in...

[charmingbillie]

Good on you!

This is one of my favorite parts of writing too!

I particularly like when I've spent days thinking that something isn't going to work, there's no way to make it work and then, when I'm doing something else entirely, I finally figure it out (of course then there's the problem of remembering what the brilliant perfect solution was long enough to get it on paper).

[sallytuppence]

Really. Which is why I occasionally run out of the shower and drip across the house to the nearest piece of paper and pen and write something down, only to return later to find that it's a blob of water-smeared ink...

This happens to you, right?

[charmingbillie]

I tick points off on my fingers, which is why I can never solve greater than a five point problem when I'm walking dogs or taking a shower.

Also, my notes never make any sense anyway--despite my absolute certainty that *this* time it will all be perfectly clear.

[deva_fagan]

Hooray for untangling threads and the power of the subconscious! I love that feeling too. All the tidbits you mention about your books are making me very eager to read them. Good luck with your last few scenes!

[sallytuppence]

Thanks! I need luck if I'm going to finish it in time for the Blue Heaven deadline, which is May 6th.

[mgsmurf]

Congrats! And it's likely the moments when it works that keep us writing through the places where it does.

[sallytuppence]

Yes. I suffer from The Sucks every once and a while, and must remind myself of the rush when everything clicks.