Miriam's a Menaceposted up the next instalment of Bricked Up in Peg City for publishing tomorrow!
everybody can read 1 and 2; patreon subscribers get to read 3, as well!
STUCK.
THE.
LANDING.
...if i do say so myself.
62k words and just the epilogue to go.
yesterday i did some writing until my brain ran out of Make Good Words juice. my brain really really wanted to keep writing (one chapter left, and then the epilogue!) but i knew id only produce drivel so i very deliberately did other stuff.
this morning in the shower i cracked the ending, know exactly how to stick the landing and finish it off with a flourish.
…but ive got a work shift so i cant actually write it out. 😭
cleared 60k words at the Grand Gesture. all that's left is the "Yes!" and the victory lap (maybe-probably a celebratory sex scene), and then the epilogue.
tfw you realize you started this chapter entirely wrong and the revision will be a million times better but it still means you need to toss what you've already got on the page into the trash
Oof. So the breakup went better than I expected, which is to say it was total emotional carnage but it came together pleasantly in a narrative sense.
At the 51,000 word mark and our heroines have managed to royally screw up absolutely everything. Now they have to go be mad at each other, and sad at themselves, and scrape themselves off the floor to do something about it.
fucking idiots
gosh writing the end-of-act-two bits of a romance novel is hard. i dont like seeing my babies hurt each other, even accidentally.