Writer's Update: The End is in Sight!

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As you can see from the counter on the side-bar, I've hit the 80K mark on Painted Over, and from the outside it might look like I'm done. In fact, though I reached the end, thanks to some big changes that happened in the middle (major deviations from my plan!), I have to go back and change some things to make the ending work. I want to do some of that now, while it's fresh in my mind, so I'll be working on it the next couple of days, re-writing some parts and leaving lots of notes to myself in others. 

This draft has been a bear, and I feel a  like I've been wrestling a bear! I can't lie: I'll be glad to put it aside until sometime next year. In the meantime, I have short stories that have been waiting patiently for attention, and can start after the holidays with the edits on Seffi Wardwell #4, Logged Off (or maybe Logged Off at the Library, but I'm leaning to the short and crisp for my titles just now. Feel free to offer opinions).

Just once, I'd like to think out a story line in advance, plan the beats--and write it that way. It sounds so peaceful and easy. It'd probably bore me and the reader.

In other news, it looks like two more posts and I'll have finished my photo reports on the Iceland trip, so that might be done by the end of the year, too. That's about it for the writer news--I've really been fully absorbed in making this book cooperate, to the point that I'm nowhere near ready for Christmas, and the kids are coming tomorrow!

Here are a couple of photos that didn't make it into the last trip report, just because.

A different view of the sheep.

Getting artsy with the dead flowers.

 

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  1. Jemima PettDecember 17, 2025 at 9:13 AM

    I’m looking forward to getting my hands on it 😀

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    1. Rebecca M. DouglassDecember 17, 2025 at 9:36 AM

      You dang near got a phone call in the middle of the night when I was struggling to figure out how to fix things!

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  2. Rosi HollinbeckDecember 17, 2025 at 6:48 PM

    I love that sheep! The mountains are pretty spectacular. Thanks for the post.

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