Eat, Drink and Be Merry!

A friend of mine gave a speech at his birthday party and said we should live our each day as if it is it our last -- we don't know when, but one of the days of our lives WILL be our last day.

Tell the ones you love, you love them!  Spend time with them.  Enjoy each minute.

In the world of writing and rewriting, as you work through a manuscript, do you practice this philosophy?  Do you write each page as if the book may end on the next page?

Do you write each chapter completely as if it were the end of the book?

Or do you just live and enjoy each moment of the writing process?

If today was your last day, did you write the story you wanted to write?  Did you get to the important parts of the story or did you nitpick over and over and over through a scene that you may delete later anyway?

If you only wrote the story you need to write on your last day on this planet, what would it be?