Endings

Funny, just last week I was working on a whole bunch of projects and now it’s down to two. This is why I redo my writing schedule frequently.

I declared the first draft of Current Book done. I’m not going to let it sit for long (I already started reworking the beginning), but I want to make a push on revising Previous Book so I can get farther ahead of what my crit group is seeing. 

There are still scenes to write near the end, but I also want to rejigger the end of the outline, and the writing was getting fragmented and hypothetical (as in, “if I have this scene here’s what it will be”, or “can’t write this until I decide whether it’s before or after that other scene”) so it seemed better to just stop and write the rest in the second draft. 

This is only the second book I’ve outlined before writing, and I had similar problems with the end of the previous one. Those of you who outline, do you manage to get the end right in the outline?