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RIGHT! I am officially sick of it! I am hereby going on a writing marathon. I am going to sit down and write until I FINISH this bloody chapter! Even if it takes me all night!

Reason? I'm almost 2,500 words into Chapter 3 of Dry My Tears and I haven't even got CLOSE to the end. The more I work on it, the longer each scene gets until it has turned into this sprawling mass of ooze. OOOOOOOZE, I SAY!!!! OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOZE! I could cut it off and have the following scenes in another chapter, but I refuse to have the action just stop for two whole chapters. I HATE big 'talking and explaining' chapters and that seems to be where I'm up to in BOTH my fics at the moment and it's driving me NUTS! Meanwhile I feel like I've completely lost track of the characters because so much information has to be passed on, and everything just keeps taking longer, and longer and longer. (ooze).

Today I was so frustrated by this (and the mounting pressure to finish my assignments, which were ALSO being oozy), that before work I almost started yelling at my mother for the stupidest of reasons. :( Thus, I refuse to continue being grumpy about the Never Ending Chapter from the Land of Ooze, and I'm going to FINISH the freaking thing.

So.

-Warning, this may contain very mild spoilers for Ch3.-

11:26pm - The journey begins. 2,357 words overall. Location - Harry's bedroom.

12:38am - Braaaaains.... 226 more done, 2,583 overall (I really would like to sleep, right now, but I think we're almost out of the door now.) Location - Harry's bedroom, (closer to the door.)

1:13am - *flails* 80 more words. We're out the door! Location - Cave of DOOOOM

1:24am - Damn, do you know what sucks? It sucks that I've been being so freaking responsible lately and getting up early in the morning, that I can't sustain staying up till 4am like I used to. Altogether today I've got 702 words done, which is within my average for one day's work, but I still feel dissatisfied. Anyway, I'm too tired and I'm going to bed. I'm going to continue the marathon in the morning.


2:15pm (Saturday) - Finished. >:[ 3,350 words and only half-way through where I _wanted_ to finish it but still, it's a good place to stop. I really want to post it now but it still needs some editing. Hopefully I'll get that done in the next few days. >:[


Just FYI: in case people think me strangely self-obsessed, (well, I am, but not necessarily the way you think), part of the reason I started up this journal was to make a complete chronical of the process of me learning to write properly, from conception to publication. So if it seems at all strange to anyone that I keep saying, 'wrote 3 more words,' or, 'tried to write but got distracted' and suff (as if anybody actually cares) all the time, that's a main reason. I really want to be able to look at this process that is so important to my life and personality, in later years and watch everything grow. :) So yeah, I won't apologise for it because I'm not forcing anyone to read this. :) Just thought I should say that.