#skrupdate

Word Count: 107,891

rapidly approached the end of my outline, only six bullet points left. I have a list of things I want to wrap up for the ending, but no real ending yet. My thought is that once I get through the outline, I'll re-read the whole story and think about it after that. I don't think its necessarily a good idea but it's the idea i'm going with

Quote: Roy sighed as he watched the oil in the pan, “It’s not like I don’t know what she’s thinking. Obviously I’ve thought it all myself at some point, but for some reason it feels safe here. I thought that would make it easier to explain to her but…it wasn’t. It was harder, like there was something caught in my throat.”

“Something you were trying to talk around..?” Peter supplied.

Word Count: 99,463

I officially have nine bullet points left in my outline (and no ending to the story, but I'll get there later). pretty soon I'm actually going to have to go back and fill in all the blanks I've left, of which there is....a lot. So. that's fun

Quote: Purpose was something Roy thought about a lot. Lying beside Molly his mind had often wondered if this was really his purpose in life-as sweet as her lips had been, as pleasant as the weight of her against him, it hadn’t really felt satisfying. He had known there was an appetite inside his soul that the little town could not satisfy. Something gnawing away at his bones as he helped his father on the farm, went to school, and went home with his fiancé's hand in his over and over and over again. Eventually his bones felt brittle, and he did not know how much longer he had.

Word Count: 145,184

As of today, there is now a 280 page, 39 chapter completed draft of 'Pansy', my old hollywood WIP. There are a lot of things I want to update and change, but there's still an entire book written with no holidays or placeholders.

Word Count: 93,914

I'm getting a lot lazier with my writing right now, but I'm fine with that for this first draft. I'm approaching the end of my outline and I really thought the ending would have come to me by now.

The character I've been looking forward to writing has been just as fun as I hoped, which is nice! She's a nun who's the sister of the love interest, so I've been having fun making her act a lot like he did early on to kind of show his relationship progression with the main character.

Quote: “At one point, she was the only person in the world who called me Del. Now she’s the only one who calls me Desmond.”

Word Count: 118,811

I'm giving myself the deadline of July 19th to get this first draft done. It's a medium deadline because while I think right now I can get that done, I do not know what the next month will entail for me. I currently have three hundred dollars in my bank account, one four-hour shift for the week, and five hundred dollars in credit card debt to pay off by the first of July. Still, I'm cursedly optimistic.

Word Count: 141,695

Two 'holidays' left, and I am on track to have a completed first draft by the end of the year (woo.) Then I think I'll do one last re-read before letting someone else read it, which I am less and less excited about the more it seems like that's actually going to happen.

Word Count: 128,774

I have written the first (and only) smut scene between the two main characters! Did it feel weird? Yes! Have I written smut before? Also yes! still, it's difficult when you know your friends are going to proofread it for you, even if you also know one of them is going to be annoyed you cut it off early.