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How I write

My never ending story has to end sometime soon. The closer I get to the end, the more exciting it gets and the more detail I need to add for every moment. Right now there can't be more than an hour left "story time" but it will take me another 2-3 chapters to get it all in there.

This is how I write.

I don't think about the book at all. Then, around 9:00 am I go to the coffee shop and sit. I don't get up until I hit 1,000 or so words. I don't know what I will write when I sit down. The story just seems to know that I'm ready to go and the words just flow out. 1,000 words takes about 45 minutes to an hour.

As I'm writing, I'm thinking things like "Why is she still here?" or "Holy shit! I can't believe that just happened." The most interesting thing is when something that I didn't understand "why" from earlier in the story comes back and makes perfect sense later on...weeks after I had forgotten all about it.

My mom calls this "automatic writing." I call it...imagination.

I'm at 115,000 words and county. My target was 100K but now it looks like 120K will be closer to the pre-edit count.

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