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This morning, I finished the first draft of a short story I’ve been scratching at all year like a persistent insect bite. I’ve already written about the reason it took so long in my last post. Once I got a fuller understanding of my protagonist, writing it became much easier. Frequent pauses during construction of [...]

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I finished the first draft of No Humans Involved this morning. It came in at 61,888 words. That word count is a little thin for a mystery novel. Revision will beef it up significantly. My first drafts are always light on setting and description, which means that even if I cut existing material, the second [...]

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It’s been a pretty good vacation. We went on a few day trips–to Orlando to visit a friend, to Tampa for Lowry Park Zoo and mouth-watering lunch at Grass Root, and to Sarasota for an afternoon at the Selby Botanical Gardens. I swam almost every morning, and we’ve eaten healthy meals, so I’ve avoided gaining [...]

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Today is an unpaid furlough day for me and Sweetie burned a paid day off to hang out with me. We also leveraged the long weekend into ten straight days off by scheduling vacation days for the rest of next week. Too bad we can’t really afford to do anything spectacular.
I’ll write, of course, though [...]

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This morning I exceeded 12,000 words on NHI. That’s between 15% and 20% of the initial draft, which I anticipate will be somewhere between 60,000 and 70,000 words. If it’s at the lower end of that range, it will mean that the plot is a little thin and I’ll beef it up in revision. Meanwhile, [...]

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