PROGRESS REPORT: WEEK ENDING APRIL 9, 2022

I've completed the first chapter of what will eventually be SOLITAIRE 2 and am surprised that it came in over 2,500+ words; making it the longest first chapter I've ever written in my life, to date.

Now there are no hard and fast set rules in regards to chapter lengths that I'm aware of, or follow 😉, but it is a solid opening to the book.

The action begins on the first page and goes from there, which is a pretty good start for an action/adventure thriller like this.

I will have to stop at some point because I still want to make a second pass over the SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL before I send it on to My Friendly Neighborhood Beta-Proofreader whenever there's an opening in her agenda, but I want to see how far I get on S2 at least the rest of this week before I switch projects.

In any event, I better get back to writing now.

Take care.
STAY SAFE!😷

And I'll see you around the Internet.

Lee Houston, Junior

10 April, 2022

PROGRESS REPORT: WEEK ENDING APRIL 9, 2016

Sadly, I have no progress to report for this past week, mainly because I was stuck in bed most of the time fighting the flu or whatever it was I had.

Despite my nose being stopped up a lot, which prevented me from wearing my reading glasses, it wasn't a cold and if it was some version of the flu, I DID get a flu shot, but unfortunately there isn't one shot that covers everything.

Thankfully I turned in the manuscript for PROJECT ALPHA 2 just as I was getting ill, but a friendly reminder, the subtitle is now PROVING GROUND, not Wayward Son.

Anyway, I did electronically sign the contract with Airship 27 to clear the way for the Sinbad adventure I wrote them last year to be published in the upcoming fifth volume of Sinbad: The New Voyages; and I'm chomping at the bit to get back on that Sherlock Holmes story I owe them, as well as all the other tales I want to write so I better get busy.

See you around the Internet!
Lee Houston, Junior
10 April, 2016