I have now moved from the struggle into the resolution. It’s all down hill from here.  I expect the novel to be 70-80k words. The shortest novel I’ve written yet. But I always seem to add on most of my revisions. I hope to keep it shorter, but we’ll see. Now you may ask, hey, how →

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You’ll notice that the progress meter for Awful Intent is slowly rising. I just finished the first draft of chapter 23. The meter says I’m almost 75% of the way done. But I’m thinking I might need an extra six chapters to finish this tale. We’ll see. The number of chapters I estimate I’ll have →

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Just finished chapter 20. It’s been a rough month for writing, but I believe life has settled down a bit, and I should be able to get the time in that I need. I hate giving targets publicly because the last time I did that I just missed and missed and missed. So we’ll stay →

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I just finished chapter 17. Our hero and the pretty but no-nonsense Sheriff Hood are now in majorly deep doo-doo. Which is all exactly what we need for a cracking good story. Wish I could share more (grin).

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Sometimes the writing flows. And sometimes you get to the chapter you’ve sketched and realize you’re stuck until you get the sheep off the road. You had no idea they were going to be there, but there they are, bringing you to a halt. For me, this means I have got to do a lot →

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