Alan V. Nelson's Blog, page 7

Gregory Alan Isakov - Big Black Car

I can't stop listening... To this entire album. I... Can't... Stop...


And I can't stop being inspired by this...


Enjoying a beautiful Sunday. What about you?Alan

Wait. What?!

"Calm down, calm down. It's not like any of you wanted to read a book that long. But I have to be realistic.
It's not that I can't write 100,000 words. It's that the story is telling me, 'Eh... Hold up. Do you want a bunch of filler pages just so you can get to your original goal, or do you want a good, tight book people will want to read?' And so I told the story that I wanted it to be tight and good. With that answer, comes a hard thing to do: I've lowered the word goal to 80,000."
"This...

51,475 Words!

In celebration of making it halfway in my novel's word count, here's some comic relief:

Updates!

It's been 10 days since my last post. Which is okay in the big scheme of things, but not good if I'm trying to keep your attention. Which I am. By default. I'm an author and I write things for people to read. It'd be silly not to produce something for those interested. So this is what I'm doing...

After researching and realizing and praying, I've thought of another avenue to keep you entertained. I've been trying to come up with a sci-fi book for a while and I think I've done it. But I'll get...