The end is in sight

I have less than 3,000 words to go to hit my goal. Now, I realize that this goal is pretty arbitrary. (1) This is a rough draft and (2) The story will not necessarily end end at the 55,000 word goal that I've set for myself. It could end sooner; probably will. But it is a way of measuring my progress and I need that to keep myself going.

Just like at the gym. I track how many reps, how many sets, what weight I'm using. It keeps me motivated to see my progress, especially during those times when it doesn't feel like I'm actually getting anywhere.

Anyway, I'm 95% of the way to my goal and I wrote over 10,000 words just yesterday. (That, my friends, is a personal best which I may never manage to repeat.) I could have this draft finished in as little as a week. As little as a few days if I really work at it.

This is a huge deal for me because I've never really, really finished a work. I've technically got three long fanfics I've finished, at least one of which was longer than this book. But they were parts of series and I didn't wrap up the loose ends because there was another part yet to be written (that, incidentally, I haven't gotten to). Plus, they were just ... bad.

But this ... this is entirely my own work and I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Not to say that writing this has been some dark tunnel with no end in sight but ... you know what I mean.