Do you get that same rush I get when I’m wrapping a book up? I can usually tell when I’m going to finish a story just because of that rush. It doesn’t matter if I’ve only got 2k to go, or 10k still to pound out. The word count isn’t really on my mind, it’s the fact that all those little loose threads aren’t loose anymore and I can actually see the whole picture.

There have been books when I had just a little bit left to go, a few pages, maybe a chapter, but I keep plodding along, plodding along and then BAM! It’s like the smoke clears and I can see where I need to be and the book is done almost like that, the ending practically wrote itself.

Then there are books where I can feel that rush coming on even from 2/3 way through and it’s smooth sailing from there on out.

I had a little bit of both with the books I did this challenge. One was like pulling teeth. One was the opposite. But both got finished. Now I’m wrestling with another one. This one is going to be one of the ones where I muddle along almost every step of the way, I can already tell. But the trick is to just keep plodding along. Even when the challenge is done, there are plenty of stories still to tell.

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