Monday, August 20, 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

No comments:

Post a Comment