while me and the rest just crash and burn

chapter fourteen, posted.  woosh.

i made a promise to myself i’d work on mapping out the rest of the story and get chapter twenty-one written before i posted fourteen.  silly me.  thinking that would be easy.  thinking that because chapter twenty was so easy, twenty-one would play nice too.  haha.  not so much.

however, i did write what will probably become twenty-three (before i even got to twenty-one) and mapped out at least the next five chapters as well as a timeline for actual, literal ending.  so, at least i have the milestones mapped out along the way.  i mean.  i should cut myself some slack.  writing well is not easy.  and i’m not going to bother with any of it if i don’t believe in it.  if i don’t think its good.

that is, by the way, why i do not disclaim my stuff.  because i work on it very hard.  because by the time its ready to post its been edited on at least three separate occasions.  and it has been beta edited.  because i know what it is and why it is there and that is why it exists, why it is being posted.  so i won’t apologize for taking my time with characterization, for ‘filler,’ for the lack of dramatic events in each chapter (because really, whose life is a series of dramatic events?  whose life isn’t mostly quiet?), for each chapter being a small piece of a larger work and sometimes acting that way.

for now i am off to listen to james taylor ‘live’ and work on chapter twenty-two.  because i am far too wired to go to bed right now, even if i have work in the morning.

xo.

<3l.