The Journal, Monday, 5/15

Hey Folks,

Back to writing sometime today. Maybe a short story, maybe a novel start (or both).

I also have in mind two good series characters. Each has a great name and a strong personality. One is male and one female. Not because I want to keep things equal, but because that’s who they are.

I also have some other pressing things to do, not the least of which is extending the roof of the carport to provide additional shade for my wife’s new car.

You can’t live in southeast Arizona and avoid exposure to a severe sun, but you can mitigate the effects. Or you can try.

Confidential to Robert: Thanks for the encouragment. It’s all good. (grin)

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I realized this morning I no longer have a writing routine. The past two weeks has been more disruptive than I initially thought it would, beginning with re-doing my office and followed by a lot of little life rolls.

There was the office rebuild, then the broken axle, then Mona’s medical thing, then the new car search and the visit from the kids.

Routine is important to me. It’s how I do things. Not a schedule so much, but a routine. So I need to reestablish that. I’ll start working on that today.

I need to make writing a priority again. Not make “the writing” important, but make writing important.

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Okay, to the list of stuff above beginning with the office rebuild, we can now add putting a new door on the Adobe Hovel. (grin)

Around 2:45 I stepped out of the Hovel to head up to the house for another break and the door of the Hovel was laying about ten feet away. Wind got it. I guess I was so deep in the current story I didn’t notice.

I had the door blocked open, so the air currents didn’t change when the door headed for Deming. Anyway, thus began the search for another door for the Hovel.

The landlord had a lot of 30″ doors, but they were all interior doors. So he’s going to try to glue the old one back together. (As if he didn’t have enough on his plate.)

In the meantime, I’ve been wanting to get reaccustomed to writing up at the house anyway with summer coming on. So maybe this will be a blessing in disguise.

Today, and Writing

Rolled out at 4. I caught up on my sleep a bit last night after what was a very tiring and trying 10 days or so.

Around 10 I finished up the carport stuff I was doing, and around 11:30 I headed out to the Hovel to write.

12:30 a break up at the house to update this stuff and grab some lunch.

Another break around 1:30, then the final break of the day at 2:45. See above.

Back tomorrow.

Of Interest

At Dean’s, “One Time Branding Workshop” at http://www.deanwesleysmith.com/one-time-branding-workshop/.

Here’s to writing off into the dark. See “Your Brain Can Only Take So Much Focus” at http://www.thepassivevoice.com/2017/05/your-brain-can-only-take-so-much-focus/.

And good ol’ California strikes again. See “California threatens to shut down book signings and therefore small booksellers” at http://www.thepassivevoice.com/2017/05/california-threatens-to-shut-down-book-signings-and-therefore-small-booksellers/.

Fiction Words: 2751
Nonfiction Words: 500 (Journal)
So total words for the day: 3251

Writing of A Fresh Kill (tentative title, novel)

Day 1…… 2751 words. Total words to date…… 2751

Total fiction words for the month……… 18165
Total fiction words for the year………… 265759
Total nonfiction words for the month… 8030
Total nonfiction words for the year…… 82720

Total words for the year (fiction and this blog)…… 348479

The Daily Journal blog streak……………………………………… 537 days
Calendar Year 2017 Novel Goal (15 novels)………………… 4 novels
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)………………………………………… 24
Novellas (since Nov 1, 2015)……………………………………… 3
Short stories (since Apr 15, 2014)……………………………… 167