Gah! Almost there!

Ok, so I didn’t finish my novel yesterday like I said I would.  Instead, I went with a couple of friends from the old capitol house and went up to Salt Lake.  Of course, Aneeka and I were in the midst of a race to see who would finish their novel first, so I invited her to come along with us.  It just wouldn’t have done well to let her have a lead up on me. 😛

Of course, the next morning I was all busy with the quark writing group and all that, so I didn’t have a lot of time to write in the morning.  Then, just as I sat down after lunch and was in the middle of finishing up this last chapter, I get a text from Aneeka saying “I’m done!”

GAH!

This novel is so crazy!  But I WILL finish it tonight!  I WILL!  I’ve worked all afternoon on it and I’m 2323 words from where I was last night–no thanks to a random computer shutoff that made me lose the first 1000 words or so.  #$%@!

If this novel has been like the 2nd choice girl you always come back to because she never says no, she’s got to be one of the most passive aggressive girls out there.  Reaching the ending is like trying to climb an asymptote–it just keeps getting steeper and steeper, harder and harder, and you wonder if you’ll ever finish it.  I swear, I am no further than 2 pages–less than a thousand words, even!–and I can’t finish the thing.

Maybe I’m just burned out for the moment.  Maybe if I lie down and rest for a bit, I’ll have the energy to pick it up in a minute and pound out those last few words.  I just need to replenish the well.