Didn’t get a whole heukuva lot written over the weekend, but I did get Part One of the book plotted out very loosely. Very loosely. I am up to 35,500 words, which ain’t half bad, I guess.
Hoping this first part will match up well with the second part, and that it will all feel of a single piece. Time will tell.
Also, anyone wanna edit this behemoth when it’s done?
My wife started cross stitching yesterday. She really likes it, and she is in fact stitching a mustache.
The Branco sisters are full of evil, don’t be fooled.
See, it’s funny because the American government spent years systematically attempting to wipe out native populations.
Wait, no, that’s not funny, it’s that other thing. Horrible. Yeah, that.
Note: I myself am actually part Native American. Not much, but my family can trace back to the Dawes Scrolls, so it’s official and all.
Here we are on the sixteenth. I’m up to 33,219 words as of this posting. I need to average just over 1200 words per day for the rest of the month (not including the rest of today, when I can probably knock out at least another thousand or so words).
The problem, of course, is the one I identified a few days ago: I’ve pretty much reached the end of the story I was telling. Everything’s wrapping up, everything’s tied together and running to the end. I can probably stretch it out to about 37,000, if I’m good, but that’s gonna be about it.
So I did some brainstorming last night. I think I may have to go back and add a big section to the beginning, another case that I allude to in the story already but don’t really flesh out. If I have that case in the story first, I can probably squeeze another 13,000 words out, easy.
Granted, I don’t have that particular case fully plotted, so it may not go as smoothly as I’d like…
Seriously, we pass by it every day on our way to and from work: a house with 5 identical Rav4s parked out front. Same model year for all 5. It’s bizarre.
First period planning is the worst. You get no breaks during the day. None. You must have a bladder of steel.
As of this morning, I’m sitting at 23,869 words. I’m on pace to get halfway through by this evening, which is actually ahead of schedule (what with today only being the 14th). I still need to go back and flesh out some more sections of the story, but I’m pretty confident I can get to at least 40,000 words by the end of the month.
I have revised my plans for the plot, ditching some of the stuff I’d originally planned because it was crap and coming up with some stuff that I think will work much better. We’ll see.
Actually, she often offers to do this, or insists that I draw her nude. Don’t know that I’ll share any of that here, though.
Sketches From Memory 