It’s official. I’m behind in my word count. Right now I’m at 24,414. By midnight I should be at 26,667 if I want to stay on track. I’ll be happy if I get to 26,000 before I go to work. Right now I’m tired and cranky and might just go to bed so that I [...]
Currently I’m 18,492 words into The Mourner’s Guide to the Death of Charlie Edison in which young Charlie Edison prepares a guidebook for those that might miss his presence when he shuffle’s off this mortal coil*. At midnight Friday (or soon after) I should be halfway into this epic tale, and so far young Charlie [...]
Currently my word count is 15,487. I had an idea of how this story was going to happen, and today I realized that the planned ending is quite similar to how another story ends, a story that I first read about sixteen years ago. So now I have some decisions in front of me. I [...]
Last night was the unofficial midnight write-in at Steak and Shake in DeKalb for the area wrimos. I think I’m the only guy who was really into a late night writing session, and I didn’t write a whole lot myself. As I pulled out of the driveway I found it to be snowing ever so [...]
Apparently I let my domain name expire and my website and email and all that good jazz was down for a few hours today. I’ve renewed and everything is good. Currently I am at Steak and Shake in DeKalb pretending that I’m working on my novel.
It’s 8:30pm and I am at 10,166 words (per the title of this post) and on time to complete. At 1666.667 words a day I only needed to be at 10,000 by midnight tonight, so I am just a little ahead of the game. However, earlier this week my lead was over 600 words, so [...]