NOVEL WRITING IN BIG BEAR

Summer school is over tomorrow. My family and I leave for our annual vacation tomorrow; this year it' s a week in a cabin in Big Bear in the mountains. I was hoping to finish Chapter 9 of the YA novel this week before we left. I'm close and will try to hammer out the final scene tomorrow before school (my typical writing time), but it's going to be close. Overall, I think it's going well, but Chapter 9 is much longer than all the other chapters (I estimate the first draft will come in at 14 chapters). I'm not sure if this chapter is longer because climactic things are occuring (which they are) or because I'm just rambling and trying to cram too much in. It'll all come out in rewrite, as they used to say. I'm hoping to write Chapter 10 in Big Bear and/or before the new school year begins. Then I'll knock out the final four in the Fall.

That's the plan, anyway.