Moving into act 4

Okay well my failure isn't totally failed. I finished a very rough draft of chapter 16 and act 3 in general. It's terrible. It is genuinely awful and I already have so many ideas for how I want to edit it. But I refrain. I know all authors have moments of crippling self-doubt and it's not that I think I can't do it. Sometimes it's just really hard to actually do it. The words just aren't there all the time. I even struggle to write this blog. But I'm glad I squeezed out enough to justify it being a full act. As I often say, something awful is something to edit and that's better than having nothing. And now I have something to edit.

So Elsie has just returned home from France and the war is coming to a close. The story will also be ending soon. I am now in act 4, which i think is shorter than the others. I might be bittersweet to finish it but it's not like I won't be spending time with her. As I said, I have a lot of editing to do. 

I finished chapter 17 this week and started chapter 18 yesterday. I haven't written at all today for the sake of sanity and because I'm watching Star Trek on account of Leonard Nimoy's passing. It's sad to see such a legend die and he was a legend. He certainly lived long and prospered. 

So I was watching early Star Trek and there was some underlying sexism, which is unsurprising given that it was filmed during the 60s. But I think I can talk about sexism during WWI and remain on topic. So people thought women were inadequate, belonged in the household, and existed to get married and have babies. The only reason they got jobs was because the men were off in the war. But! Their effort in the war is the reason that Woodrow Wilson changed his mind on giving women the vote. Prior to the US's entrance into the war, Wilson believed women had no reason to vote. But afterwards, he said it was only fair to include them. As he said, "we have made partners of the women in this war...Shall we admit them only to a partnership of suffering and sacrifice and toil and not to a partnership of privilege and right?" Talk about character development. 

Thank you again for tolerating my whining enough to read this, my 2 viewers. Live long and prosper. And rest in peace, Mr. Nimoy.