Happy times, pop the cork. I’ve finish my book

124,086 words.  Will anybody ever ready it though?

I had an unbelievable day of writing yesterday.

The words were flowing from my fingertips and I just kept pounding away. I think I wrote for about 4-5 hours, starting at lunch and didn’t stop until I had to head out for a meeting. This was one of the pivotal moments/battles of the book and I really enjoyed getting in to the one on one nature of it. This arc ended and won’t pick back up until the characters meet again, (at the Red Doors).

I have the characters currently split into four locations and will manage to bring three of them together for the last scene. The fourth group of character won’t be picked back up until the start of Book II. I didn’t plan for this to happen, but I think it will manage to keep a side storyline moving forward and will become important as the second book ends and the third one begins. After 15 months to get this point I can believe I’m talking about a third book already; God have mercy on my soul.

My main challenge now will be to tell the closing story and not let it drag on. I’m at 114,750 word and refuse to let it pass 120,000. As it is now I’m hoping to slim the post draft copy down by about 10,000 words, but no promises.
On a side note—holy cow, I’m seeing Kindles everywhere now. Went to a boy scout meeting and met two people with Kindles and I’ve seen two others in the wild. Are these things really selling or am I just surrounded by other geeks?

Lonnie

Getting close to the end

I’m feeling like a race horse that sees the barn door. I’m over 108,000 words and about 200 pages on a word doc and see the end. I’m trying to write about 5 days a week and with a few hours every day in front of the monitor, I think I can finish the story by the end of the month.

I’m going to take a break after the book is done, but to keep myself writing I’m going to write some back story for a couple of my characters. I don’t think it will see the light of day, but should help with the next installment in the series.

Lonnie

Kindle app on the iphone WOW!

I just got done playing with the Kindle Iphone app and it is fantastic. Works a lot like the Classics app on the Iphone, almost as good but the page turning and size of the Classics app is a little better. I downloaded Jack Campbell’s, (aka John G. Hemry) Lost Fleet series and it is very readable. Looks like I’m going to start doing more reading on my Iphone and less podcast listening, sorry Leo Leporte.

Lonnie