What a wacko day. The sun was out for about ten minutes, otherwise it's been raining all day. I began the day revising pages from yesterday. After that, I just made the decision I'd been struggling with. I went back and adjusted all the pages, that needed adjusting then wrote an additional few pages. Then I went to lunch at the Studio Cafe and knew I'd done the wrong thing. I'm glad I did, however, otherwise I would have wondered about it and fretted about it. But having done it, it just seemed wrong as can be. The interesting thing is that two weeks ago on a jog I came up with what I thought was a very good way to finish. I wrote it down and I just should have trusted that. But long before, I had this other thing in the back of my head that I thought might be fun and interesting, but having finally done it it was a little convoluted and didn't feel right or hang together right with the rest of the book. So, I went back and rewrote all the rewrites - I stupidly didn't do a "save as" and save the way I'd written it originally. Actually, I did cut and paste the three most important pages' original version into another Word document, so I had that. All that took most of the day. I still wrote five pages, though, and now it's on to the final two chapters. I'll probably start the new chapter later tonight, and then try to finish that (it will be longer than the other chapters) by Sunday, and the final chapter will be fairly short, at least as I'm seeing it.
