The Journal, Monday, 4/3

Hey Folks,

Huh. Guess we made it back. Otherwise I wouldn’t be writing this.

I played catch up with some email and FB stuff last night, but was too tired to tackle photos from the trip. I’ll do that this morning, then ease my way back into writing The Pyramid Killer.

Of course, I’ll begin by cycling back through. Probably I’ll read the first few paragraphs of every chapter to reacquaint myself with the story.

Even when I left off on Thursday, I felt like it was only maybe 5 or 6 thousand words from the ending.

But the ending wasn’t quite it sight yet. Which is why I left it alone. I never want to risk forcing an ending. So as always, we’ll see.

Today, and Writing

Rolled out at 4. Spent the first almost 5 hours with routine stuff plus checking pictures from the trip.

Finally to the Hovel at 8:40 and wrote some of the stuff above. To the novel at 8:50.

Not a bad day today for just getting back into it. The end is probably still a couple days away.

Back tomorrow.

Of Interest

Great post in the Smashwords blog, “Fahrenheit 451 Meets April Fool” at http://blog.smashwords.com/2017/03/fahrenheit-451-meets-april-fools.html.

At Dean’s place, I hope you read the comments on “The Magic Bakery: Chapter Two” (http://www.deanwesleysmith.com/the-magic-bakery-chapter-two/comment-page-1/).

Dean’s also resumed reporting on his day and fired up a new challenge in “Starting Up… Here We Go…” at http://www.deanwesleysmith.com/starting-up-here-we-go/.

Fiction Words: 2995
Nonfiction Words: 250 (Journal)
So total words for the day: 3245

Writing of The Pyramid Killer

Day 1…… 0978 words. Total words to date…… 978
Day 2…… 3630 words. Total words to date…… 4608
Day 3…… 3764 words. Total words to date…… 8372
Day 4…… 3826 words. Total words to date…… 12198
Day 5…… 2521 words. Total words to date…… 14719
Day 6…… 4109 words. Total words to date…… 18828
Day 7…… 5401 words. Total words to date…… 24229
Day 8…… 2995 words. Total words to date…… 27224

Total fiction words for the month……… 2995
Total fiction words for the year………… 211551
Total nonfiction words for the month… 790
Total nonfiction words for the year…… 58130

Total words for the year (fiction and nonfiction)…… 269681