I would like to take a moment to give thanks to whatever many-tentacled deity is listening.
*collapses* It has not been a hard run, as far as books go. Part of it is the small amount of down time during the writing of the book. I did the proposal last year, but I've written everything else in the last ... month. I can't remember when I started writing. Maybe a day or two at the very beginning of March, but then there was Jenn and Grandma and Ted's arm and doom and I didn't really get started til the 6th and on the 12th I was on chapter 6. So yeah. The last month. Writing with that much focus helps a lot. It's easier to remember what you did at the beginning. Still, this is the last of the unspeakably tight deadlines (assuming, at least, that I do not screw up and slack off for the next three months), and getting through it will be a huge relief.
I might've finished it today, but Ted and I went into Cork and went to the market and went to see "Failure to Launch", which was pretty cute. We had a really nice day, and we both needed the time out of the house and away from the keyboards, so that was good.
I believe I will spend Monday through Wednesday *reading*. I'll do revisions on Thursday and Friday and submit the book Friday evening. But Monday through Wednesday, I am going to FINALLY read LAST LIGHT OF THE SUN, which I've owned for two years, and going to read the Luna books I haven't had time to (
(Quite a lot later, but before I've hit 'post' on this...: I was wrong. Chapter 25 kept going and going, and now I've hit more than 1800 words and have decided to make the second half of 25 a chapter of its own. So maybe there'll be 27 chapters after all. Either way, I should be able to write the final chapter and epilogue tomorrow and be *done*.)
ytd wordcount: 134,600
miles to Mount Doom: 457