Wednesday, August 14, 2002
Yesterday wasn't such a catastrophe as Monday. But I can't say it was easy, either. The end of this novel is determined to make me work my ass off for every word. And I have decided to go with a new ending, technically a new, new, new ending, since this will be the fourth ending that has seemed "right" since I started writing the novel about eight months ago. I did 1,008 words on Chapter Thirteen yesterday. I predict, somewhat reservedly, that I'll finish this, the last chapter, on the 20th.
Last night I had a Very Long Phone Conversation, probably my longest since frelling high school, about four hours, then got sleepy eating a mango and watching the last half of Katherine Hepburn and Fred MacMurray in Alice Adams.
12:50 PM