Twelve days. One hundred thousand words. The big rewrite begins.
Can I do it? Only with commitment to my task. And lots of caffeine.
I have enough material written to piece the whole thing together, except for the ending. I won't write the last chapter until I'm ready to be done. But everything else is there, in some form or another. It's just a matter of putting it all together.
Rolling up my sleeves. Coffee close at hand. All is quiet at 5 a.m. except the birds outside the door.
Egads, they are loud! All the better to keep me awake.
Let's roll.
(I was at the Art Museum on Saturday with a friend, then came home and watched 'Girl With a Pearl Earring.' I saw it as not just a perfect way to end the day at the museum, but a form of period research. Now I feel fully inspired. This is another Vermeer painting: Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid. The maid is my heroine, Marenya, and I am the woman writing while she looks out the window thinking "When will you be done?")
Oh my gosh. ARE YOU KIDDING? TWELVE DAYS?
ReplyDeleteNope, not kidding! I am on vacation and need to finish this puppy. I want to read it out loud to my grandmother when I visit later this month. Her eyes are too bad to read it herself, and I don't have a tape recorder any more.
ReplyDeleteVermeer is one of my favorite artists!
ReplyDeleteThis...this is a genius idea. How did you pick how many words to get through? I ask only because this seems like something i would like to try at some point...
ReplyDelete100,000 is my goal for a full manuscript. I need it to be done.
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