Approaching Perihelion [writing]

I’ve had this looming over me for about three days now, but a confluence of long days at the office, going to see Man of Steel with Eldest Daughter, and general fatherly and work duties have kept me from acting on it.

I’m 300 words from the 50k mark in W.I.P.

Is that significant? Probably not to you, jaded reader, but for me that’s the the start of the downward slope. My original estimate had this novel clocking around 80k, not because I seriously though that’s how long it would be, but because that’s how long the average minimal length novel is. Coming in under that was not acceptable – past it, fine.

I could be wrong, but I expect I’ll get closer to 100k or more, which is great. It also breaks my self imposed timeline for completion, but that’s ok, the important part right now is to finish the novel, not meet some arbitrary deadline that no one expects.

So why do those 300 words feel so daunting?