It was rough to write. It’s necessary, I think, and the teenager put himself in the situation and it was self-defense on our hero’s part. But still, it was a bit tough.
It’ll also mean I need to work the kid into the story earlier, for more emotional impact. Hey, we’re trying to affect the reader here. It’s also going to feed into the antagonist’s journey and into the split in the town’s opinion of our hero.
I’m encountering more things like that – where I will need to go back in the revision process and work on a character arc.
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The reCaptcha seems to have worked its bot magic, and I’m not getting any more spam comments for approval. Really no comments at all. Sorry for sounding thirsty. It’d be nice to hear if you like the the updates, and to trade thoughts with you.
Anyway, springtime as a homeowner has a way of eating up time. Hence today’s short update.
Without further ado, today’s word count and context-free excerpt. BTW, currently at 84,923 words. Somehow I went from worrying about how I was going to get to 100,000 to worrying about how far over I’m going to get. On the plus side, it might just solve that problem with what the later books in the series will be. If book 1 becomes 1 and 2, well, I don’t have to figure out what 4 is.
Date 4/19/2026
Words (Draft) 1475
Words (Elsewhere) 0
Words (Total) 1475
Characters (Draft) 8105
Characters (Elsewhere) 0
Characters (Total) 8105
Session Target 1380
He slung Finn into the passenger seat, and drove off slow, his lights off. He quietly got out of the neighborhood and to the main road before turning them on. The urgent care was about ten miles down the road to the right.
Lucien turned left.