The Journal, Tuesday, 9/26

Hey Folks,

Well, I expected this to be a nonwriting day, frankly. But the subconscious mind is an amazing thing.

I knew I’d spend much of the day in Tucson today, so my characters woke me up early. I spent some time doing nothing, then moved to the novel at 4 a.m.

Quick Update: I posted this at about 8 a.m. this morning. Been to Tucson, where we thought the doc would schedule me for surgery to replace my pacemaker. Found out I don’t expire (okay, my PM battery doesn’t expire) for about another year. So SCORE! (grin)

This morning so far I did a little cycling, then wrote, then basically recst two chapters (only about 1400 words). Each time through was in creative voice (no ‘thoughts’ given to sentence structure, what to add or omit, stuff like that).

If I had the whole day to play (not sitting all day, but coming back all day) I probably would finish the novel today. But I don’t. So probably the novel will finish tomorrow.

I’m not going to try to push anything, so I’ll post this now. Leaving for Tucson in about an hour.

Back tomorrow.

Of Interest

From a friend, see “139 Old Norse Words That Invaded The English Language” at https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/139-norse-words.

Fiction Words: 1422
Nonfiction Words: 170 (Journal)
So total words for the day: 1592

Writing of Loose Ends (novel, working title)

Day 1 – 15……………………… Total words to date…… 34735
Day 16… 1146 words. Total words to date…… 35881
Day 17… 1102 words. Total words to date…… 36983
Day 18… 3723 words. Total words to date…… 40706
Day 19… 1650 words. Total words to date…… 42356
Day 20… 1422 words. Total words to date…… 43778

Total fiction words for the month……… 50859
Total fiction words for the year………… 430479
Total nonfiction words for the month… 14363
Total nonfiction words for the year…… 150763
Total words for the year (fiction and this blog)…… 581242

The Daily Journal blog streak……………………………………… 667 days
Calendar Year 2017 Novels to Date………………………… 8
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)………………………………………… 26
Novellas (since Nov 1, 2015)……………………………………… 4
Short stories (since Apr 15, 2014)……………………………… 182