Second book is done

The second book is done. Not too bad considering it's only the second of the month and I was sick all last weekend.  At the DMV we have to take a certain number of furlough days and today I decided to take a furlough and was able to finish chapter 33. It has 2,629 words, which gives me a final book total of  88,883 words.

 During the week I also edited the first five chapters of book one.  I am going to do two or three more edits and then give the  chapters to my daughter for her edits. Then I will incorporate her changes and whatever else I find on a final read.  then, I'll send the first book out to the agents. As I've said before, I don't really expect anything to come from that, but I might as well try. While it's out, I will edit the rest of the book, and write book 3 (Or at least begin book three). I already have the name of the book, but I haven't started to plot it yet.

This will be my last posting. Nobody posted any comments, so it isn't worth it to me to continue daily updates.   I'll probably still make an entry from time to time, such as when I finish all the edits and send the first book to agents, or maybe when I finish the first half of book 3 or when I finish book 3 totally. Therefore I sayAdieu.

Last posting unless...

I have been kieeping up this blog almost(?) daily for the past two months and intermitently for the three months before that and, as far as I can figure, I am getting only about 3 or 4 readers a day (the same ones I am guessing). The idea of the blog was to help people find my books and to generate interest in them. But, I have never heard from anyone, so, unless I start receiving postings telling me I am doing the right thing and that people are interested and, I start getting an increased readership (your friends, colleagues, whoever), I am not going to keep writing the Blog. I can, instead, use the time to write on my books.

Which, BTW is not yet finished because I was sick last Friday and now have a swollen ankle (from blood problems) and can't see sitting in front of the compter in my off hours (I am a programmer all day - and the wife is pressuring me not to do it). I am trying to work out some kind of method of writing in a livingroom chair, but I'm still working on that. I have tonight and tomorrow night to finish and still make it within the month. I only have 1/2 chapter left and am over the 75,000 word self-imposed minimum.

I will post again when I am finished, but that will be my last daily-type post unless something changes (outlined above). I will probably still post every couple of weeks to let anyone interested know my progress on the new books (I am not stopping writing books, no matter what).

split chapter 30

I  decided that chapter 30, was a bit long so I took part of it  to incorporate that into chapter 31, and finished that chapter (2,564 words). Now  chapter 30 is 1,933 words  for a total of 83,874 words or  approximately 112% of the total  word count I was after.

 I think there will be only one more chapter. But that's still to be discovered, hopefully today.

Split 27 and 28 into 27, 28, and 29

Yesterday I split chapters 27 and 28 and 2, 27, 28, and 29. I found a logical way to do it in the chapters. They were a bit too long for my tastes.  Then I wrote chapter 30 yesterday (2,964 words).

 I now have 81,486 words or 108.65% of 75,000 words.  I think there will probably be two more chapters, and probably about 5000 more words.

I hate to admit it but I was pretty lazy today

I said  in yesterday's post that I might write some more at the end of the day after having written chapters 24 and 25 yesterday. Well I did just that and finished chapter 26 (2,918 words) yesterday as well. (Three chapters in one day, wow, I'm impressing myself. Someday I'm going to break my arm patting myself on the back.) Now if I can just gain some type of readership to make all this work worthwhile. Not that it matters. I didn't have a whole lot else to do this weekend anyway. Besides, I stll managed to wash a weeks worth of dishes (my wife is out of town right now), clean out the drain in my sink, and do a little work in the garage.

I  slept in longer than I have been doing  the other two days this weekend.  I slept in till five. I was also rather lazy because I  watched TV several times and worked in the garage  some of the time. I'm not sure how, but I still managed to finish chapters 27 (3,784 words)  and 28 (3,227 words).

I now  have 78,410 words which is 104.55% of the 75,000 words I was shooting for.  unfortunately, I guess, I'm not finished yet. . There are still three things I have to do for the conclusion of the book. I don't know if it's going to be three more chapters two more chapters or four more chapters, but I'm guessing another 6,000 or 7,000 words at least.

The nice thing is that today is only the 20th and I got the 75,000 words I wanted in only 20 days.   Which is pretty good if I do say so myself.

 By the way,  if you're at all interested, I posted a whole bunch more interesting quotes  on the tab "On Interesting Quotes". I  included my own pithy statements.

I have finished chapters 24 and 25 today

I  have finished chapters 24 (2,687  words)  and 25 (2,570  words)  today and it's only 4:30. I even took time out to do some dishes today.  I think I'm  going to eat supper now and watch a movie,  but I will probably write some more before the evening is over.

I'm  now up to 68,481 words which is 91.31% of the 75,000 I'm shooting for. Not too bad considering it's only the 19th of the month. And I have tomorrow off  for Presidents' Day.

Finished Chapter 23

It's  almost 8 o'clock and I've only finished chapter 23 (2,187 words). I don't know how much more writing I'm going to get done for the rest of the evening,  but I'm going to try and write a bit more.

Now, I have 62,676 words or 83.57% of the 75,000 words I am shooting for.