Fifty-One: At The Start Of My Second Half-Century, I’m Rethinking Everything

Inertia’s a bitch. It can mean doing nothing until something kicks you out of your complacency and starts you rolling. But inertia can also summon up Newton’s First Law, part of which is: “An object in motion remains in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced… Continue reading Fifty-One: At The Start Of My Second Half-Century, I’m Rethinking Everything

DTD — 498 words, and the cop’s view of the Dead Seven

Switched to the next scene to intro my hero in his new amalgamated form. He found something on the victims that makes him certain what looks like a weird cultish group suicide is in fact a murder, and tips him off to who the murderers may be. I’m off my game tonight, though. The Air… Continue reading DTD — 498 words, and the cop’s view of the Dead Seven

DTD—289 words forward, and a small clue

Aleksa gets the first hint that what she thinks happened to her assistant is not what happened at all. Small segment tonight—I haven’t slept more than a couple of hours a night since last Friday, and I’m determined to get a full night’s sleep tonight. So, with 21,184 words completed, I’m going to turn in.… Continue reading DTD—289 words forward, and a small clue

DTD: 333 more words take me over 20K

Good words last night, along with surprising action as my MC remembers something horrible that shaped her life, and decides to fight for survival. I’m stunned to realized that working at this ambling, casual pace, I’m already over 20,000 words, and that if I were planning a normal-length book, I’d already be 20% done. This… Continue reading DTD: 333 more words take me over 20K