Last week I edited 200 pages in just under 100 hours (14hrs a day) - of a book that was supposed to be ready for a final touch-up. I took a week off work to 'get it done'. But it's not done.
With 245 pages left to revise and fix, never mind incorporating feedback and spelling fixes from my dedicated pre-release readers, I am wondering if it would be easier at this point to stop writing, log into Warcraft and level up a Blood Elf Hunter on an almost exclusively Alliance PVP server. I think it might be less frustrating.
On Sunday afternoon, with bloodshot eyes, my unkempt hair pulled back in a pony-tail, on my 43rd cup of tea for the day and still in my pajamas, I rage-quit this book and slept for two hours.
Then, because one of the themes of this damn book is 'there's always a way', I put a Half-life 2 run-through on Youtube as company and went back to work.
I'm only halfway through, but at least I'm still going. New deadline - I'm giving myself another 4 weeks to complete it. Then it goes out. I'm hoping my readership (are you out there yet, readership?) will go kindly on this first piece of work, and keep in mind that the plots of most major (yet awesome) movies are fairly illogical. If cool things happened in real life all the time, we wouldn't need fiction now, would we?
Wearily yours,
Kaia.
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