deadlines

I'm really bad with deadlines. My freshman year in college, I think I turned one paper and about half of my daily homework assignments in on time. The rest of the time I got extensions or had questions for the prof that they didn't get a chance to answer before it was due... Somehow, I made it through another three years after that, with about the opposite number of extensions, more or less. Taking easier classes helped, even if it seems backwards to do so after the first year.

In the last two days, I had two "deadlines," kinda. I thought my model was due, basically tomorrow, and I really wanted to get it done so I could move on, so I told myself I would work on it as much as I could even before I heard from my instructor whether we were going to set them up on Sunday. I knew I had to get it done eventually, so why not now?

Because I needed to get my novel formatted for lulu.com before, uh, today. So I ended up working on the model basically all weekend and didn't really get started formatting the novel until today. I did finish in time to make the nanowrimo offer deadline, but I didn't get to do as much editing as I had hoped. The plot itself is still kind of a mess, especially at the end. The problem is, I don't know what to do with it. I knew basically where it was going to end before I started, and I got there, but at the end, there were a bunch of loose ends that I hadn't worked out yet before I got there. I know where it's supposed to go after this, but I don't know if I have to work out all those loose ends before I can continue. I suppose I'll see what I feel like writing once November rolls around again. At this point, I think I would write a sequel just so I don't have to come up with new characters, but a lot of their backgrounds have become kind of hard to follow. I guess that's what comes of making up stuff as you go along instead of planning everything out ahead of time.

Still, I can't wait to see the actual physical book :D