One Day More
I am nearly there… I have one more chapter to wrote/draft for my next novel, and I shall be doing that today. I have 151,000 words already, so this is by far the longest story I have written, which means it will take longer to edit, but that’s all part of the fun. I was concerned about the length until I found out that Bram Stoker’s Dracula is roughly 160,000 words long. After editing, my ‘The Clearwater Inheritance’ will be cut down as I know I have repetitions to sort out, and the first few chapters contain a lot of threads I later realised I didn’t need. Still, the story flows, every chapter has a point, and the mystery is worked out by the end. So, today’s job is to do that one last chapter and finally get the story out of my head.
After that… I may take another village stroll as I did yesterday, and later, I shall return to the wooden puzzle I am building. There’s some housework to be done at some point (washing, and watering the plants, mainly), and hopefully, I will have a little time to read some more of the excellent book Colette sent me for my birthday. Thank you again for that, C. It’s fascinating and, in a word, perfect.
So, to end the week, here are a few photos I have taken over the past couple of days.
