Today I came so close to the end, I could have said THE END. But I chose not to, just to tease Sophia.
Seriously, I hesitated because I didn’t like the way the ending was forming. It was too easy and wishy-washy. I even pulled out Kress’ book, Beginnings, Middles, and Ends.
I backed up to the beginning and have been making small edits as I go along, adding in a few scenes, dumping others. Kress says that the end is where the writer fulfills the promises. Well, I wasn’t sure what those promises were so, back up I went.
As of now, the final total is 93283, with 3443 new words today. I am close enough to my goal that it would be safe to say it is a done deal. But let’s not, hmm?
I’ve got two or three big scenes to add in, a bit of more stuff in the prologue to do, and I think that will be it.