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One of the major reasons Tartarus has taken forever (besides totally losing my SG-1 mojo, which y'know, didn't help), was because I made the wildly tragic mistake of writing out of order. So I had scenes written that were scattered all over the story and since those were always the "good parts", that left the not-very-thrilling parts that would go in between. Which, who wants to write the dull bits, right? And worse, many of them were in the beginning because I "knew" what happened to get to Exciting Moment A, so I didn't feel terribly compelled to write it. Except I NEED it, so anyone who isn't me can figure it out.
However, I am happy to report that the first 20,000 words are now HOLE FREE! I added about 4000 words and it's complete. YAYAYAY! Which leaves a few more toward the middle and one narrative black hole, which we won't talk about since I still don't know what the hell I'm going to do about it.
But at least the beginning is now a complete draft, and if I really have to, I can end the story at ~50K words. It's not a very happy place to end it, but it is AN ending.
(and yes, I'm behind. I KNOW.)
However, I am happy to report that the first 20,000 words are now HOLE FREE! I added about 4000 words and it's complete. YAYAYAY! Which leaves a few more toward the middle and one narrative black hole, which we won't talk about since I still don't know what the hell I'm going to do about it.
But at least the beginning is now a complete draft, and if I really have to, I can end the story at ~50K words. It's not a very happy place to end it, but it is AN ending.
(and yes, I'm behind. I KNOW.)
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