Didn't make my amended deadline, but I have no doubt I will finish Scurvy Dogs! today, and since that's my original deadline, I'm calling it a success.
If
our family were better at planning, I probably would have made it.
Tori is flying to New York today to visit our son Ben and daughter
Millie. And everything was left to the last minute, as per usual,
plus she had to spend about four hours at the DMV – about which I
have plenty to say, but not here and now.
The
reason for trying to be done by the 19th was so that Tori could read
it on her Kindle on the plane. Now she can read all but the last
chapter on the plane. I'll send her the wrap up tonight.
As
it is, I basically finished the story and just need to tie it all up. Then give it another quick read through and call it good. If it
meets Tori's approval, it'll be off to Eddie the Agent on Wednesday.
Friday
I wrote 1,379 words. Saturday was an exciting 1,609 as the kids
finally had to deal once and for all with Itchy John and his henchman
Bill Dedman. And Sunday was exciting as hell, the return of the
duplicitous (but funny, I hope) Carlton Lowell, and the final
showdown. I wrote a sword fight that I really think is good. I found
I got quite worked up and was pounding out the words as fast as my
fingers could move. It's funny, at least to me, that when I write action my fingers fly. I get caught up and it just takes off. Suday I wrote 2,228.
Scurvy Dogs! is at 60,227
words, with the final chapter (maybe two short chapters) still to
come So right about exactly where I hoped it would be.
And it will be wrapped up today.
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