Finding it a Bit Tricky

So, I've been trying to rewrite the ending to my middle grade novel. That's where I've been hiding all this time and why there haven't been many blog posts.

Well, writing book is really the reason there aren't many blog posts.

It's the ending I've been finding tricky. I think I must have written the ending at least five times by now.

The annoying thing is, I love this story. I really enjoy writing it and reading it! The reason why the ending is so rubbish in the first place is that I was so excited to see what would happen next that I completely rushed it.

It doesn't make sense. People appear and disappear all over the chapters and it's too foggy to see what's happening.

I've tried to find the point in the later chapters where the story begins to fall apart. That was too complicated because there was a lot of information in those chapters that I wanted to keep. Then I tried to simply edit those chapters but there was too much bad writing that it was depressing me and switching me off to writing.

In the end, I've decided to completely rewrite the end chapters. I've put away my hastily written hand copy and now I'm typing it directly onto the computer. Something I only do for blog posts! Gasp! (As you can tell from my poor spelling.)

It is certainly going better now that I've started to simply rewrite the ending. I can just delete anything I don't like and edit it a lot quicker than I can when writing by hand.

This may be the end of writing by hand for me.

More about that later.

I am continuing with the ending rewrite. I've been posting about it quite often on my Twitter feed. I think I'm winning. Everything is happening as I wanted it to but I just want it to be beautifully and seamlessly written. I want it to be exciting and enjoyable and page-turning.

Fingers crossed that's how it goes.