{"id":114,"date":"2008-04-23T14:00:59","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T21:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maryrajotte.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/25\/the-end-is-nigh\/"},"modified":"2010-02-06T14:45:58","modified_gmt":"2010-02-06T19:45:58","slug":"the-end-is-nigh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maryrajotte.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/23\/the-end-is-nigh\/","title":{"rendered":"The End Is Nigh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/maryrajotte.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/postphotos\/outline.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Outlining\" title=\"Outlining\" hspace=\"8\" width=\"300\" height=\"299\" align=\"left\" \/>It&#39;s sunny and gorgeous outside today. I have all the windows wide-open, and every now and then cool breaths of air come wafting in.<\/p>\n<p>As a writing day, today has been a very good day. I started the day by planning out the remaining schedule for working on my outline. The end is in sight now, and I now have something to strive for rather than just working (maybe over-working?) my planning.<\/p>\n<p>I am sort of writing this book backwards. I had the basic idea in my head for a while, started researching it last summer, and did a basic outline just prior to NaNoWriMo. Once November arrived, I had to get writing, so I abandoned my outline and wrote 50,117 in a month.<\/p>\n<p>I pretty much ran through my entire outline by the end of the month, and basically abandoned the project over the holidays. I&#39;d been working on it sporadically again over the past few months, and finally made a commitment to myself to work on it everyday so I can finally finish it and get back to the writing.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#39;t feel like I am slacking, though. 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