Thank you so much for the kind words of support!! This is what I needed to hear today. My speed is probably entirely down to the fact that I just finished my final year at university and am temporarily ENTIRELY FREE to write all day/every day… yesterday was one of those days. Soon I’ll be stepping out into the “Real World” and getting a job, so I’m going to have to start figuring out how I’m going to find a suitable work/writing balance for my life.
Hah! Congratulations on finishing university - also an accomplishment to be pleased with. Enjoy your writing break while you've got it.
Really glad to hear that you’re trying to write even when you come home tired - that’s not something I imagine I’ll be very good at doing. Also working on a project for 10 months shows incredible dedication, I really hope the rest of it goes well for you.
I'd say "obsession" rather than "dedication" but, you know, po-tay-to, po-tah-to. I too hope the rest goes well. I'd hate to lose steam and lose interest after sinking so much effort in - it's something I'm afraid could happen. I am a serial obsessionist and my obsessions, which tend to last anywhere between two and four years, can change without warning.
But, I worked out some story points I'd been struggling with and wrote a new outline this weekend. The 11 chapters I've written of the novel so far will, with some rearranging, some cutting, and a little addition, account for 15 chapters of the new outline, which is still just about halfway through the story. As tempting as it is to go back to the beginning and do that work to turn my existing 11 into the new 15, I think I shall try to press forward along the new outline. Because I suspect that as I work on, as much will change about the second half of the story as has changed about the first half. So my first goal remains: Complete a draft, no matter how ragged and lumpy and ugly a child it is shaping up to be.
ETA: Oh, and I came up with a title, at last. It's a hella melodramatic and rather dreary title but a title nonetheless.