{"id":178,"date":"2015-02-23T22:01:29","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T03:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/katerivet.com\/?p=178"},"modified":"2015-07-27T20:39:38","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T01:39:38","slug":"the-final-countdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/katerivet.com\/?p=178","title":{"rendered":"The final countdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone!<\/p>\n<p>As of last night, I&#8217;m at about 45,000 words, which means I&#8217;m about 15,000 from the planned end of this book!\u00a0 I&#8217;m now in the place of &#8220;where is this going?&#8221; in the sense of: where exactly should I set up the big event that will fuel the ending of this story?<\/p>\n<p>At the point I&#8217;m at right this moment, I&#8217;ve already begun to set things up to be like dominoes.\u00a0 The problem I&#8217;m having is that I&#8217;m not sure how many words it will take to cause the other shoe to drop and then to pick up all of the pieces.\u00a0 I know some authors are good at writing pieces of their work and sewing them together seamlessly, but I&#8217;m an author who needs to move in order from Point A to Point B to get my idea down.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t do that Point A-&gt;Point D-&gt;Point B-&gt;Point C and then suddenly, they&#8217;re all in the right place as if that&#8217;s the way they were initially written.<\/p>\n<p>My original goal was that I&#8217;d have this novel finished by the end of February.\u00a0 I will admit that there were many days where not being under the NaNo-type pressure really killed my vibe and I couldn&#8217;t get anything worth writing down this month, but I was really determined to persevere, especially after I passed 10,000.\u00a0 Every single unfinished piece I have is under 10,000 words and that&#8217;s kind of my make it or break it point.\u00a0 When I finally hit 20, 30, 40k &#8212; it just pushed me that much more.\u00a0 So, I have 5 more days of February and just under 15,000 words to go.\u00a0 That&#8217;s about 3,000 words per day to finish on time, BUT!\u00a0 I&#8217;ve given myself a get out of jail free card!\u00a0 I took a 5-week course on my new digital SLR camera, and therefore my Monday nights have been unproductive.\u00a0 The last one was tonight, so my Mondays are now back to normal.\u00a0 As a result, though, I&#8217;m giving myself the first 5 days of March to finish if I need that lifeline.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m truly hoping to have something to whet your reading appetites with in the very near future, but I will give you this much: the book is definitely, officially called A Royal Risk at this time \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 It could change in the future if need be, however, I think it will work wonderfully with the cards I&#8217;m dealing in this one.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you&#8217;re all having a great end of winter, though I sure hope you are all warmer than I am!<\/p>\n<p>Until next time,<br \/>\nKate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone! As of last night, I&#8217;m at about 45,000 words, which means I&#8217;m about 15,000 from the planned end of this book!\u00a0 I&#8217;m now in the place of &#8220;where is this going?&#8221; in the sense of: where exactly should I set up the big event that will fuel the ending of this story? 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