PROGRESS REPORT: WEEK ENDNG MARCH 25, 2023

 I'm still working on that big action scene I mentioned last week for SOLITAIRE 2: THE AGENDA, although it has spread into CHAPTER 18 now.

If you're wondering why apparently so little work since the last Progress Report; I also had a doctor's appointment, errands, housework, and other tasks to accomplish during that time that had absolutely nothing to do with writing.

I'm still within the 27,000+ words neighborhood at the moment, but it and the rest of the novel have a long way to go before both are finished.

With that in mind I better get back to writing now.

Take care.

STAY SAFE! 😷

And I'll see you around the Internet.

Lee Houston, Junior

26 March, 2023

PROGRESS REPORT: WEEK ENDING MARCH 18, 2023

 Write Right now, I am attempting to stage an action scene in a location that I have never been to before.

Not the first time I have ever attempted this, and it probably won't be the last either.

Just wish I could afford to do the traveling research.

My imagination and my Internet browser have more "frequent flyer miles" than I do.

Anyway, it is also an issue of trying to at least do something fresh, if not totally new.

At the very least I don't want to repeat anything I wrote for the first SOLITAIRE novel.

I'm on Chapter 17 and 27,000+ words into the second at the moment, but I got a late start today because I needed to pause and write a bio for a character I created for another project that should be coming out soon from Lucky Comics.

More on that as things develop.

In the meantime, take care.

STAY SAFE!😷

And I'll see you around the Internet.

Lee Houston, Junior

19 March, 2023

PROGRESS REPORT: WEEK ENDING MARCH 11, 2023

ALAS, I'm running late again posting this week's Progress Report.

Anyway, at the moment I have been researching and trying to figure out how to write a car chase scene within a parking garage.

I know they've been done before, especially in the movies, but I just want to get the opening scene for Chapter 17 of SOLITAIRE 2: THE AGENDA as accurate and as exciting as I can.

Not sure how much writing I'll get done the 13th between a doctor's appointment and then trying to get the week's grocery shopping done before the next winter storm arrives Monday night but in any event...

Take care.

STAY SAFE!😷

And I'll see you around the Internet.

Lee Houston, Junior

13 March, 2023

 

PROGRESS REPORT: WEEK ENDING MARCH 4, 2023

 I'm late posting this one because I spent most of March 5 celebrating my 61st birthday 🎂, but have made it to Chapter 17 of SOLITAIRE 2: THE AGENDA. Still in the 26,000+ words neighborhood, but there is progress!

Chapter 16 was a bit on the difficult side because besides all the interruptions, it takes time to plan and write out action scenes, which are usually better presented visually.

Yet it's just me, myself, and I on the writing front with no one on the artistic side until the book is being prepared by the publisher.

In any event, it's past my bed time as I prepare to post this, so I'll resume writing after breakfast in the morning.

Take care.

STAY SAFE! 😷

And I'll see you around the Internet.

Lee Houston, Junior

6 March, 2023