Yesterday, I needed a pre-dinner snack because my wife and I made the ridiculous decision to go to Target in the evening. And as she went upstairs to get ready, I found two fortune cookies from our take-out earlier in the week.
Fortune 1: Your talents will capture the highest status and prestige.
Fortune 2: Your talents will be rewarded and recognized.
Now, I'd like to think that fate was giving me a reassuring nudge with my progress on The Pause (62k words with eight outlined chapters left to go) instead of just happening to get the "Your talents" batch of mass-produced fortune cookies. In any case, I had been working on The Pause right before I got those cookies and in a moment of "Did I do it all wrong?" self-doubt that I'm sure all writers are familiar with, it was a nice little bit of reassurance.
I'd been going on the pace of 1-2 chapters a day, so it looks like I might obliterate my original goal of a first draft by the end of January. I might finish by Christmas, and outside of an agent and a publishing deal, I can't think of too many better possible gifts than a completed draft.
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