Harry the Pirate Captain

I’ve been making decent progress. I am down to the last two or three scenes (unless I end up adding any more). I expect to finish chapter 19 in the next day or two, which is the second of three chapters for the climatic scene. Of course, I expected this scene to be one chapter. When I got into it, I realized that I would need at least another chapter to tell the whole scene. So now I am at three chapters, and thinking about it, I’m not sure it won’t grow to four chapters before I have completed the scene. 

As a side note, I was reading a missive by the famous and very talented author, Dean Koontz. In it, he talked about agonizing hours over a single sentence to get it just right. I had to laugh because I am so far from that one would not classify me as a writer. I am more akin to a monkey at a typewriter. My method would be more accurately described as a toddler with a box of Scrabble tiles. I throw words at a page and then come back later and try and make it make sense. While writing ‘Harry and the Kraken,’ my goal was just to write something. I found it was easier to make changes after I had some words on the page than it was to actually put the words down. Some chapters ended up radically different than the first version that I typed. For ‘Harry Breaks a Jail,’ I have had Grammarly running. It is a curse and a helper. I spent a few weeks fine-tuning its suggestions so that they were closer to what I wanted to see from it. Every creative writing teacher tells you to just write, not edit; edit afterward. With Grammarly running, that breaks that rule, but it has been a help and hasn’t seemed to break my flow.