Excitement (and sleep!)

I had to force myself to stop writing tonight.

It's 12:30 AM, and I'm right at the start of the climax of the book - an epic battle sequence that I've been playing over and over in my head for a couple of years. I want and need to do it justice, and trying to plow through it at this time of night when I am tired and my eyes are giving up is not the time to try it.

Tomorrow we get to meet with the realtor that is going to sell my late mom's house and the house she sold to me several years back. It will be a gigantic load off of me to get that process started and going. My hope is that tomorrow evening I can pour my entire being into putting this scene into words.

I haven't been this excited in a long time.

Something Tangible

Until tonight, everything about this project had lived in a Google Doc on my Google Drive. I printed out a few chapters to get some feedback from my wife and it stirred a lot more emotions than I thought it would. It is something tangible, more concrete now than just a nebulous thing living in the cloud.

I am more determined than ever now to finish this up and be able to tell the entire story of these characters that I have grown to know so well as they go on this wonderful adventure in my head.