My First Novel

Today at exactly 4:10 pm, I finished my first novel. It felt good. It is technically only a novella right now at somewhere between 40-50k words. It is saved in chapters at the moment so I don't have a total word count. I've written over 40k since I started keeping track, and I can't recall how many chapters into it that was. Easy to look up, hard to muster the motivation to do it. I hope both of my readers are having success in their writing endeavors as well.

R.

Happy Thanksgiving

This time of reflection leads me to mention some things I am grateful for. The top of the list includes my wife and children, my family, her family, our home, my job(s), being on the cusp of having a draft of the novel. I'm going to skip farther down the list and hit on some of the things that might not make it into our lists, but should. Even if it's at the bottom.

- Increasing my vocabulary through muzak. Just the other day I heard a new word (slizzered). Listening to pop radio can be so educational.

- The mystical power of four-wheel drive. You would think that if two wheels couldn't budge you on an icy hill that four would make it barely manageable. Yet with magical power, the four-wheel drive dissipates disaster in the most surreal way.

- Beanies. Because you can't go without them when you've got the head of hair that I do.

- Grilled Salmon Tacos.

Happy Thanksgiving.

R.