65,095 Words

Thought 65k was a good milestone to post.

A few passages have taken me in a slightly new direction and required more research and some character changes.

Add in the holidays and work and family, and my output some days is only a few notes to myself about where I might head the next day, and sometimes I repeat that for a few days until things fall into place.

I'm also outlining another book that will go faster and be more sinister.

And one after that as well, which is all location and personalities, but no story yet.

Then there's the one I finished years ago that was too literary for its own good. I started with Sgt Pepper when I should have been doing Please Please Me.

(I tried to think of a literary analogy, but couldn't come up with one. Howabout "I started with Samson Agonistes when I should have been doing L'Allegro and Il Penseroso." Nah, me neither.)

- c0 -

59,626 words

A pompous music director.

Connections over coffee.

Connections over crime scene photos.

And a stakeout.

57,230 words. EOM.

Happy Birthday, Streckfus + an updated word count.

Happy Birthday, Streckfus

September 30, 1924

Progress on my book...

Word count: 49,000+

2 dead

1 baffled lieutenant

1 insightful detective

1 snooping writer

1 GARBC pastor

1 Catholic priest

43,168 words and a link and memory

This is really something (use headphones if you can):

http://www.firstmenonthemoon.com/

I remember visiting the National Air and Space Museum in the Smithsonian and watching Dad stand still for a number of moments, his hands in his pockets, while he looked up in awe of Lindbergh's Spirit of Saint Louis hanging from the ceiling.

I didn't visit the Kennedy Space Center until I was an adult, in fact, only a few years ago, and I remember standing in awe of an entire Saturn V rocket hanging from the ceiling. (For those that don't know, that's the rocket that put men on the moon).

I will never be able to describe the utter humility and privilege I felt at that moment.

The greatest heroes are born in the minds of children, and so they are big and kind and simple as only children can make them.

--c0