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Logistics will slow you down…

I did manage to grind one chapter out today for 2602 words. I could have hit another one save for two reasons. First, I had to work out the last section of the book, both in terms of plotting and then logistics. Plotting was pretty easy. Going into the end of the book I have […]

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Happy Birthday, indeed. Thank You.

My birthday started as it usually does, with my folks calling much too early to sing Happy Birthday. We chatted for a bit, then I talked with Kat, then I got to work. I turned out two chapters for 5,085 words. Gave myself a present by introducing another villain and having him lie to about […]

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Thanksgiving!

Didn’t get as much done as I would have liked—only one chapter for 2658 words. I was pleased with it, but my second writing session pretty much fell prey to food preparation. I had a 16 lbs Turkey in the smoker, along with a huge porkloin. (They turned out great.) Stuffing, Cauliflower, sweet potatoes and […]

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Happy Thanksgiving Eve!

I got a lot more work done today. I wrote two chapters for 5,164 words. I also prepped a story for release in Second Life. This is the story Covenant, which I wrote in October and read in SL. I created a number of other things for Second Life, since there is a sale on […]

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Truncated Tuesday

In one of those bits of serendipity that occurs when one compiles statistics, I wrote two chapters for 5092 words, which is exactly the number of words I did yesterday. Very odd. But the chapters were good, and once I work myself out of a little sequence of chapters, we’re on to the big finish […]

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Big shift Monday

I managed to get a bunch of stuff done on Monday, including two chapters for a total of 5092 words. In between them I made my Thanksgiving food run and managed to score a present for my 3.75 year old niece. I was kind. It doesn’t make a lot of noise, and should give her […]

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The words continue to pile up

Today’s number is 5, 432 and accounts for two chapters worth of words. Both chapters really got tough around the 2200 word mark, but finished strong and went longer than I would prefer. Still, they pushed the story forward and added some twists. This is the phase of a novel that I like. I get […]

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