Technically this should be my last day, but I predicted the need for a further couple, and this seems perhaps more realistic. I hope to get this finished to the The End point within the next couple of days. I’ve added a further 10,000 words over the last couple of days, and also worked over a large climax, but there is still a little more to do. It’s close though, and I find easier this final week, with the end in sight. I have to work this afternoon, however - not a great contemplation when it keeps raining overhead, and all I want to do is sit here with a laptop on my knee and move into the final scenes. But…

After the champagne pop of celebration - hopefully celebrating my dog getting his large cone collar off his head on the same day, next week I intend to go over the whole thing - not reading it, but reformatting it, and then running the exe that takes all the individual scenes and chapters built into a full single-space manuscript. Then I might go out and buy up some paper, and spit it out into real life. Then I’ll stick it into a drawer and let it be forgotten for several weeks, while I work on digital designs, and perhaps play around with some other ideas for another novel, just so that I forget this one, enough for the first big read, and redraft.