Bhagwan @ Large

When last we left our heroes…

It may not seem like much compared to the rest of the week, but chapters 19 and 20 (for realz) are completely plotted.

Between them, there are 5500 “new” words of direction and miscellaneous text, and certain things that had been left dangling are now all tied up and tidy.

Monday. Monday will mark the end of principal production.

And that will be something indeed.

Plus, the last words I typed before abandoning the keyboard to watch television a few hours ago are my all-time favorites.

“Fade to Black”

Chapter 20 has a return to earlier devices, and successfully wraps up the story I needed to tell in this book.

Chapter 19 is a complex dance of perspective and narrative.

Going to be completely honest here. This morning I did not want to write at all. Teased myself into it, by “just say what happens.” Took me three passes, and it was 12 hours between start and finish.

Tomorrow, the words will flow like sweet wine from the bottle. And while these two chapters (by both design and necessity) have ever ramping action, they may be the most complex pieces I’ve ever attempted.

Yay me.

time to sleep.

Thank you, gentle readers

Three dear and good friends helped me though the opening of Chapter 17 today, in which the one character present in every scene of the book is introduced, but not named.

I also added some science into my Science Fiction.

Yes, I mention 17, a chapter previously named as “finished.”

The Art previously known as Chapter 17 is now happily living a quiet, still complete life under the new identity of Chapter 18. Chapter 16 got too big for its britches, and I had to cut it off at the knees.

So 17 became the beneficiary of the predicted doubling, which in reality was a trebling, given the now equally completed length of 16.

Did someone say length?

Guess that was me.

130 thousand words. Two chapters remain until I can close the covers, and join prologue to epilogue.

I am very tired now. I am going to bed.

I will NOT be setting the alarm, as that seems to have done nothing at all yesterday morning.