I just realised that the book is missing a chapter.
*facepalm*
No, no, it’s not that I miscounted and in fact have two non-existent chapters to assemble; only Chapter Ten needs the rits and such, which is what I’m working on today. I was scanning the four pages of random notes I’d been typing in at the end of the file when they suddenly clicked for me, and I realised that there really needs to be a separate chapter addressing how one works with a spiritual hearth.
This is not the staggering crisis it may seem. The fourish pages of notes tie together quite nicely, and there were threeish pages in Chapter Two that I’ve just moved into what I’m currently calling Chapter Two Point Five. The material really needs its own focus instead of being shoehorned into Chapter Two. Suddenly things are falling into place, and I’m somewhat relieved because I was always vaguely unhappy with the whole nebulosity of this particular element in the book.
It is, however, a minor crisis in that I now have to smooth out/link/expand another chapter when I thought I was all done but for the final chapter. Chapter Two Point Five has just been scheduled for Friday in place of obsessively scanning the MS.
This is a good thing. It’s not such a good thing in that I’ve just created more work for myself, but the book will be the better for it.
Sigh.
So to sum up:
“I missed a chapter. What a troublesome inconvenience- this shall cost me an entire afternoon… Bother.”
Yep. She’s a writing goddess. Could you at least bat an eyelid over the task this time? :D
Marc
Ha! I wish it were that easy. I’m at the saturation point with the subject, and I’ve hit that stage in the relationship where ‘it’s not you, book, it’s me, don’t take it personally’ and I want it all to be over.