Despite a rotten cold and numerous distractions, I’ve got my chapter-by-chapter map done! A few of the chapters are yet to be written, so that will be a fun change from the editing/re-writing that will be the bulk of November. It is looking more and more do-able as I get more and more organised. Perhaps there’s some kind of connection there.

Meeting with the local Nanowrimo group on Sunday was encouraging. It seems like a really compatible bunch, and hopefully we’ll get a few more people out as well.

I don’t have as much in my freezer as I would have liked to in preparation of non-cooking days ahead, but hopefully the kids will step up to the plate and take care of things. Only four days to go…

Many things requiring my attention, days running out! I seem to have the mapping mostly done, now attempting chapter breaks. Chapter breaks will hopefully help me see it as a step-by-step process; revise a chapter, move on. It sounds so simple, and yet….

Working on the denoument is tricky. You need to tie up loose ends, so the whole goal-conflict-disaster thing is less clear. At this point you’re not pulling the reader along any more, they’ve completed the dramatic climax and because they care about the people now (or they wouldn’t still be reading) they want the satisfaction of seeing how things come out in the wash. But they don’t want to be bored, so I need to be witty to the end, I suppose.

The other trouble will be disciplining myself to stay in ‘editor mode’. I know it’s mine, but I really do get drawn in and stop looking for “telling instead of showing” or “how many times have you used that word now?”

No one said it would be easy.