PROGRESS REPORT: WEEK ENDING AUGUST 25, 2018

♫Second verse, same as the first.♫—Herman's Hermits (Henry the 8th)

Still working on HUGH MONN, PRIVATE DETECTIVE, BOOK 3: FEMME FATALE.

Have reached "Point A" in Chapter 21 and am right now trying to decide the best way to reach "Point B".

Or, in other words: I know what I want to do, just not sure how to do it.

Have a doctor's appointment and a few other things to do this coming week, but any available writing time will be dedicated to HUGH.

In any event, I better get back to writing now.
Have a great week and I'll see you around the Internet.
Lee Houston, Junior
26 August, 2018

PROGRESS REPORT: WEEK ENDING AUGUST 18, 2018

WELL... better late than never.

"Like sands through the hourglass..."

A few things and other matters kept me busy over the weekend, so I'm just now getting to my weekly progress report.
Don't worry. Everything's about as right as it can be in my life at the moment.
In any event, once again I spent all my available writing time this past week on HUGH MONN, PRIVATE DETECTIVE, BOOK 3: FEMME FATALE.
The story is beginning to shape up wonderfully.
I'm on Chapter 21 and 51,000+ words into it.
Minimum word count is 60,000; yet there's still a ways to go and a few twists and turns yet to be explored before Hugh can declare the case closed.

Yeah, I'll be the first to admit that this has taken awhile.
Far longer than I originally planned or hoped.
Various short stories and PROJECT ALPHA, BOOK 2: PROVING GROUND had to be completed before I even began work on HUGH 3.
The fact that my publisher suggested delaying what I originally had planned for Book 3 until the next one left me with a big empty hole to fill, plot wise.

Then a couple of false starts, along with having to go back to Square 1 (a lonely, barren place if there ever was one) more times than I wanted to before I even came up with what I'm now calling FEMME FATALE, and all of this was long before losing most of October 2017 because of losing my mother.

None of the above should be taken as an excuse, but it is an explanation as to where the time has gone.
In any event, I'm definitely on the right track now.
Just need to put in the time and effort to finish the first draft of the manuscript before sending it to my friendly neighborhood beta-proofreader for her editing and input.
With that in mind, I better get back to writing now.

Take care, and I'll see you around the Internet.
Lee Houston, Junior
20 August, 2018

PROGRESS REPORT: WEEK ENDING AUGUST 11, 2018

I'll keep it simple.
Worked on HUGH MONN, PRIVATE DETECTIVE, BOOK 3: FEMME FATALE every available writing moment I had this past week.
Didn't have as many moments as I would have liked, but then again, I think every writer can say that to some extent.
Anyway, I now have 20 complete chapters and roughly 50,000 words.
Starting to approach the grand finale, but not quite in range of it yet.

Better get back to writing now.
See you around the Internet.
Lee Houston, Junior
12 August, 2018

PROGRESS REPORT: WEEK ENDING AUGUST 4, 2018

Well, I've been all over the place this past week.

Most of the time I did work on HUGH MONN, PRIVATE DETECTIVE, BOOK 3: FEMME FATALE.

But I spent one day in Victorian England kicking around ideas for a new Sherlock Holmes tale (or two), and had to put everything aside for a while Friday to create and review back cover copy for KIRI'S QUEST, the Companion Dragons novella I co-wrote with my friendly neighborhood beta-proofreader Nancy Hansen, before the manuscript was submitted.

Hmm...
Between HUGH'S far flung future, Sherlock's vintage setting, and my writing desk being in the present, I wonder if I can get frequent flyer miles for all the time travelling I did??? 😕

In any event, I better get back to writing now.
Have a great week and I'll see you around the Internet, whatever century I'm in. 😉

Lee Houston, Junior
5 August, 2018