Puzzleboxed!

I finished my first draft of Puzzlebox last night - making my promised 10.30 bedtime more like midnight! But I was able to tell my hubby that the pesky writer woman had gone away for a while and he could have his wife back.

Until the pesky editor woman appears.

Actually, she's here, but she's under the radar for the moment.

So it came out at 25,500 words, there or abouts. I don't think I have ever written as intensively as that before. The great grey "and magic happens" bit at the end got filled in last night with what I think is a great scene. I mean, I think it now. I thought it then. When I do my actual read through I'm sure it will be an entirely different matter. 

I have a lot of loose ends to tie up: paths that never went anywhere, conflicting histories becuase I changed my mind about a few things, but I think I have the makings of a good story here. Not necessarily by Sunday which is when the antho closes, but possibly.

There again, I do want to stay married!

Ah well, I'll sort out something. It's probably easier if I sit down with paper and a pen though, so the file is churning out of the printer as we speak.

Fingers crossed.

R