I won El Narco: Inside Mexico’s Criminal Insurgency by Ioan Grillo from LibraryThing’s Early Reviewer program a couple of months ago, and I have been eagerly awaiting it’s arrival. Today, it finally showed up in the mailbox, and I look forward to reading it. This book contends: Despite what some … Continue reading →
Yes, I know I blogged it was done a few days ago. I had another chapter and a half to write, so I did that. First draft of Granite Hill is complete at 52,739 words. The NaNo Site doesn’t allow winner validation until November 25th, so I had to wait … Continue reading →
If you’re celebrating Thanksgiving in the US of A, I wish you Happy Thanksgiving. If you’re not celebrating, I’m still thankful you are here reading today. As, of course, thanksgiving is traditionally a time of taking stock of the blessings in one’s life, I’ll try to capture a few: I’m … Continue reading →
Yes, I’m done. 50,024. I’m not done with the book, but NaNo has been won. Will keep working to bring the book to it’s conclusion. I’m on the second to last chapter, and there’s much to be said and done before all is said and done.
Continue reading →Yes, that’s right. 49,037. Oh, so close. But that’s the count for today. I’m going to stay up a little longer and try to get it finished tonight. Hubby arrives from San Antonio tomorrow, and it would be nice to be done with this before he gets here. 963 words … Continue reading →
That is 43,865 cumulative words on this project. That leaves 6,135 words to go. Very doable. But this new keyboard is giving me serious headaches. More likely, my computer distance portion of my prescription is changing. I’m due for an eye exam next time I go to San Antonio. I’ll … Continue reading →
Another good day. I started to fall into the trap of my character suddenly being there for his mom as she fought pancreatic cancer, but even he called me on it. So we got that into a more realistic scene, and the words flowed. 7,856 words to go to win, … Continue reading →
Yes, this means I have fewer than 10,000 (9,542 to be exact) to write before I “win” NaNo this year. After a few days of cooler temperatures, today was warm. It’s supposed to remain warm and get stormy tomorrow and Monday.
Continue reading →This month’s Merry-Go-Round Blog Tour topic is a self interview. Right. I’ve browsed Google* and have come up with a few completely unanswerable questions, and I will attempt, before your very eyes, to answer them. You will think they are simple, but the words are deceptive. How long does it … Continue reading →
That’s a convenient stopping place. A cumulative word count of 38,480 words. I’m going to try to get a few more, but I’ll put them on tomorrow’s count.
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