It's a little humbling to have your conflict free witty banter scenes staring you in the face.

yeah I am not actually taking a break from this yet. I read a couple of books about structure and i started poking at the MS. Since I'm doing it, I may as well track it....

88,722 words, and complete! I have a few days left before my deadline. I might tinker with it a little bit, or i might start my reading holiday now....

I'm actually still in the middle of writing. I wrote a chapter, took my dog out for a walk, and now i'm going to review what I wrote and start the next chapter. It's going by really fast, writing wise and pacing wise, and that's good because it's the middle of the story, that's right when it should be really fast. I hope I make my deadline!

I'm in screaming panic mode because my deadline is a week away and I have a bunch of appointments that totally mess with my usual writing time and are stressful enough that I worry about being productive on those days. So last night I mapped out the third act. Yes. I outlined. And today I've written nearly 3500 words, and I'm hoping to write one more scene. Nothing like a deadline, right?

I don't think i'm going to break 70k in time for worcount wednesday, but I wrote the big big sex scene. I woke up thinking I was going to have another zero day like yesterday and instead I fixed the problems with the scene i had written before and carried on.

Next is the wedding, and the big old disaster that ends act 2.

I broke through that part where I hesitated, though I didn't quite skip through it - I wrote transitions where days passed, haha. now i'm up to the night before the third wedding, and many events are colliding. I've written notes on the next two scenes and I'm frustrated because they need to be emotional and I'm not connecting with my emotional skills at the moment. So i'm doomed to write woodenly, and hope that I can fix it in editing.

I really want to edit this thing. It's kind of a problem. My editing mindset is not the same as my writing mindset.

I'm so afraid I won't make it. I went wrong in the structure somewhere, and I've been meandering around trying to find the thread and the pace of the story and I desperately want to skip ahead to the third wedding. A friend is encouraging me to do it, to write what I want to write, and then figure out what needs to go in the gap. And I'm afraid to do that. But maybe I should.