Total Bookage = 28,049 words
Wow, with one minute to spare, I knocked down 8647 words today. For a four-day total of 28,049 words. Had to look at the spreadsheet a couple of times to make sure that one was right. The book’s competition is about to kick into high gear, starting with Chapter 10. I’m almost done with Chapter 9. Have the meet and greet and then Talia’s late night rendezvous with Jack to write. And the competition gets wild and crazy for Jack. Especially since one of the contestants he’s never met tries to lay him out at the orientation. Jack’s a little puzzled by Bellamy’s attack and by some of Gianni’s uncharacteristic comments. Jack doesn’t realize that those moments are being caused by Lucifer trying to cheat his way through the wager.
Jack’s got a long slog ahead of him to survive everything that Lucifer’s about throw in his way as he tries to trip up Talia’s angel of death duties. Starting with one of Jack’s competitors. Talia doesn’t know the name of the second soul she has to cross over yet. Lucifer hasn’t yet revealed the second soul to Azrael yet. And when he does, all Hell’s gonna break loose. I really feel sad that I’m already a third of the way through the book. But then I remember that there is a book 3 to write. 🙂
G’nighters.
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5,800 words
Taking a breaking, but still plugging away. This book is going so fast. It makes me sad because it will be over so quickly. And I’m having such a damned good time writing it. Good thing there’s still a book 2 to write. 🙂
Listening to: Singles 45’s and Under by Squeeze
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2,001 words
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685 words
Made this first post because PCH just crossed the 20K mark. Stoked! The first book in the series is about 83K, so I figure I’m about 25% of the way through book 2. Had a realization in the shower this morning about an issue that had been nagging at me since I started book 2. Couldn’t put my finger on it until this morning. Once I got why it was a problem, the fix was crystal clear. So, I spent the last couple of hours working through everything. This required me to rework some events in Chapter 1. Almost done with the fix, but when I added up the new wordage, I saw that I’d crossed the 20K mark and had to start today’s Dare post with that. Feels good. Feels like my writing’s back on track, something that’s been so wildly up and down since 2015 because of my mom’s health and mounting stress from my IT career.
When my mom died suddenly in August of 2018, it broke me in ways I’m still discovering. Even two years later. In little and big ways. Like random song lyrics. Seeing her handwriting or a card she’d given me. Or in big ways, like still wrapping my mind around the fact that she’s just gone. That’s she dead. That I’ll never sit down again beside her and tell her about this crazy story idea I have or ask her how her day went or about what she’d dreamed of doing at sixteen. The suddenness of having her just drop dead right in front of me still makes it hard for me grasp the finality of it even two years later. For me, her death wasn’t a process. It was a moment. And if I’d been anywhere else at any other time, I wouldn’t have been there to even witness it. Paramedics brought her back and I held her as she left this world, but the part that was my beautiful, wonderful mom left in that horrible moment forty-eight hours before. So sudden and final that I still struggle with it. So, at that point in 2018, writing became a comfort not a career, something I could only do for myself. It literally kept me alive at a few points during the first sixteen months she was gone.
She read the first book in this series. I think she’d like this one, too.