Hi, there, Dear Reader.
Well, here we are in the early afternoon of Tuesday, May 2, 2023, and I’m happy to report that I was able to stick to my plan of working on The New Story in the morning/midday shift, then stop – preferably with 1,000 words (more or less, preferably more) written and saved in the Word .docx file. Today I settled for slightly less than 1,000 (the “new words count” ended up being 808, after making nips and tucks to early drafts of today’s exertions.)
I am now on the fifth chapter of The New Story; today’s task was to complete the first scene in an interlude set in the narrator’s younger days that I started yesterday. Including the chapter title, this section of the story is 1,450 words long now – and the scene is done, at least in rough draft form.
As of this afternoon, The New Story is 40 pages long (including the epigraph page) with a total of 14,963 words.
It’s still relatively early in the afternoon, and in theory, I could go ahead and start on the second scene, but I’m not going to. I’m tired, I need to take a shower, shave, and change into fresh clothes. Plus, I can’t chain myself – figuratively – to my desk and write from dawn till dusk. I need to relearn how to balance work and relaxation and not obsess so much on The New Story.
Is The New Story any good? I’d like to think so, yes. I mean, I’m too close to the work to be totally objective, but I have shown bits and pieces of it to a select few, and they seem to like what they’ve read. Could it be better? Maybe, but since I edit as I go along – which is why my rough drafts aren’t exactly rough – I think I’d need someone to edit the manuscript just to make sure everything is kosher. I can’t afford to hire anyone, though, so I’ll just have to trust Word’s editing tools and my own instincts.
Anyway, as I said, I’m beat. And I need that shower! So, until next time, stay safe, stay healthy, and I’ll catch you on the sunny side of things.
A Certain Point of View, Too 
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