Waiting for you: Friday Update
News:
Nothing to share this week.
Works in Progress:
Never & Forever (Meridian Book 8) is definitely looking long. I wouldn’t be surprised if it went past 120K in the first draft. Nothing wrong with an ambitious novel, but it definitely tests my patience.
Taking an extra day off a week is helping, though. Usually I only take one day off a week, but October is complicated anyway, and I needed the extra 3K-word days to help me feel like I’m moving forward more. Of course, it makes me crave the days I did nothing but write and could get 21K words a week instead of 11K. I’ll survive. I’ll hit 69K by tonight. In my list of nine story beats, I’ve crossed out four, and I’m almost through five.
Can’t believe that when this novel is done, I’ll have finished writing the Meridian series. Feels like a whirlwind. That’s taken years.
Books I’m Reading:
Raising Loki: A Memoir by Elliot Manarin
Rose Madder by Stephen King
Things I’m Listening To:
Halloween playlist
Things I’m Watching:
The Witches (1990)
The Craft: Legacy
Haunted Harmony Mysteries: Buried at C
Dracula Untold
SWAT series
Hannibal series
All Creatures Great and Small series
CSI series
CSI: NY series
Halloween Baking Championship series
Poem of the Week: (throwback to 2023)
i don’t understand
why the celebration
as we creep ever nearer
to your cruel revelation
why would you encourage
unnecessary acceleration?
long as you’re spared damn
the rest of the population
i cannot condone the
vacuous participation
in widespread violence
and genocidal devastation
all in the name of
joyful damnation
by a merciful God
of glorious creation
