Every Labor Day weekend (US holiday), Forward Motion runs a Labor of Love (for new work) or Unfinished Business (for, well, unfinished business) challenge.  The idea is to write 30,000 new words over the course of four days.

I’m taking the opportunity to use Unfinished Business to complete the first draft of Threads and Ties.  I will finish it this weekend even if the last part is sparser than would be prudent.  This is a first draft dang it.  I’ve been working on it for nearly two years with no progress for most of that time.  There’s no excuse for that.  It’s keeping me from revising other work and starting new work.  I’m taking a NaNo approach of permitting myself to write crap, and I’ve already discovered an amazing new thread to lead me through to the end — I’ll have revise a little more earlier in the book to set it up, but I needed to do that anyway.

I’m sitting at 67,233 words right now.  Wherever I am at 11:59 pm on  Monday is the end of the first draft.  This is ridiculous and has to stop.  This book has quashed my momentum like a steamroller parked on my foot.  I just figured out how to reach the reverse switch.  Here goes…