Taking a day off.
The updates these past two days haven't been great. There's just been too much going on over New Year. I originally had a bit of free time today, but then I had to start looking after the kid again in the afternoon. Just now I was putting the child to sleep, and ended up falling asleep myself... When I woke up and saw the time, I realized I hadn't written a single word, so I can only ask for a day off.
The updates these past two days haven't been good, and another reason is that I've been polishing the plot.
Before, I was being pushed along by the daily update quota, and my enthusiasm was almost drained dry. What I wrote felt stiff and ugly, and by the time I finished four thousand words every day, it was already very late, so I just wanted to hurry up and sleep.
But that won't do. I can feel the quality of the book declining, so I might as well stop, rest a little, and polish it properly.
This book is already in its final stage. Whether it's good or not is another matter, but at the very least, I want to write a complete story. Just as Dumbledore felt that the meaning of a person depends to some extent on death, I feel that a book's ending also represents its scope to some extent.
So I want to fill in all the holes I dug earlier and make the whole story hold together.
I've already roughly worked out the plot for the ending, and today I also more or less finished the detailed outline for the remaining parts. It involves several ideas and tricks, and I have no idea how many brain cells I burned on