Finit Act Four. (And *how*.)

My resolution of this morning has led to rank stupidity, of a probably necessary sort.

I had one scene left in Act Four. In keeping with the need for a higher pace, my goal for the night was not one thousand words, but that scene. I wasn't sure how much that would be.

2169, in case you were wondering.

But wait! There's more! You see, at that point I was over 89K. And that nice, tasty 90K landmark looked so close. I could write part of the first scene of Act Five, and feel really virtuous.

. . . except that the first scene ended up dropping me a hundred and fifty words shy of 90K, because it was so short.

So, in a fit of sheer bull-headedness, I started the next scene, praying I would get that 150 before I got into the meat of it, since I haven't yet decided how [spoiler] is going to happen. I should have had two more days to make that decision, going at a normal pace, but tonight was not normal; tonight was 3041 words of headlong charging.

The novel is now 90005 words in length.

Act Four ran long, by a couple thousand words; that isn't the end of the world, but when I revise I'll see if I can't tighten it. Act Five . . . you know how sometimes people say, "I know how long my legs are; they're long enough to reach the ground"? Act Five will be long enough to reach the end. It may be short. I don't kow. I'm just praying it doesn't head too firmly in the other direction, because that would muck up this whole August 8th plan.

Unless I wrote 3K every day. But that would be a bad idea.

In fact, why am I still at my keyboard? Good night.


Authorial sadism: They figured out the plot.

LBR quota: Love and blood -- my favorites.

research question

This may possibly take the cake for Most Arcane Research Question I've Ever Asked Because Of Writing.

Is anybody out there familiar enough with Terrestrial Dynamic Time to tell me what if any conversions I need to make for a timestamp from 1547? As in, was 12:54 TD roughly noonish back then? The Wikipedia article on Terrestrial Time leaves me entirely unclear as to how closely that timestamp matches normal person time.


Edited to add: astroaztec has been kind enough to verify my math for me. It turns out the difference is truly negligible, so I needn't worry.