I’ve never met anybody who does that
Nothing’s worse than having the end in sight - or at least within 10K - and knowing that, once I type “The End”1, I have to go back and cut giant chunks2 to make room for what should be there.
This last week - and every day until I’m done - I’ll be an irritated jumping bean. You just try to fix something at work that insists on staying broken3 when all you’ve got on the brain is The Book. All I want to do is write it. Finish it.
Then go back and put in the bits that need to be in there.
The plan was - finish Biohazards no matter what problems I hit along the way, put it aside for a couple of weeks, rewrite the first 50 pages of NKNK (and get those to my crit partners), then go through Biohazards to rewrite and revise. But I have Biohazards on the brain, so I’ll be pushing NKNK until that’s done.
1 I don’t actually type “The End”.
2 Even if it means cutting darlings. I don’t want to cut them, but if they have to go, they have to go.
3 And has been broken for nearly 2 months now. Broken things aggravate me. Particularly when I can’t fix them.
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