Well, apparently the forecast for today proved to be quite accurate. As I write this, the light levels – already low because I keep my Venetian blinds closed – have dropped significantly, and my bedroom/writing study is…well, dark. So far there haven’t been any lightning strikes or even thunder in the distance, but we are getting some light rain. Most of the truly bad weather is either out in the Gulf of Mexico or way off to the north (Ocala and Leesburg are getting pounded by some big storm cells now), but one never can tell when the sea breeze will push a line of nasty “boomers” toward this part of Hillsborough.
I did, of course, have enough time to copy-paste the corrected versions of the two scenes that my Beta Reader kindly went through yesterday afternoon to both the Master Document on Word and my creative writing program WriteItNow. So, that item on my To Do list for the day is checked off, thank goodness.
If I wasn’t looking over my shoulder – figuratively, of course – for the arrival of bad weather here, I might have actually either worked on Scene One of Chapter 10 a bit more or pushed on to Scene Two for the nonce. Unfortunately, having already lost one black-and-white TV in 1974 and an eMachines computer in 2004 to lightning strikes, I tend to get nervous whenever there’s a real possibility that we’ll be affected directly by inclement weather. So, I wasn’t able to focus on the story enough to write any new words or even revise the ones I did write yesterday.
Oh, well. Maybe tomorrow I’ll start working on the novel early in the morning and, if the weather is not stormy in the afternoon or evening, work on this blog after, not before, writing new material for Reunion: Coda.
Oh, yeah. About that title. When I finally decided to write a follow-up to Reunion: A Story back in March, I thought it, too, would be a novella around 50-60 pages in length that I could self-publish both on its own and in a two-in-one omnibus edition (preferably as a nice hardcover). Since the two stories are so closely intertwined, I gave the new one the working title Reunion: Coda because I thought it would be a small, intimate story that deals with the aftermath of Reunion: A Story.
Well, that was the plan, but the story did not want to be told as a novella, but rather as a novel. Not a huge “doorstop of a novel” along the lines of Stephen King’s 11/22/63 by any means, but it’s still longer than the 2023 revised edition of Reunion (51 pages, according to the product page on Amazon) at 150 pages (per WriteItNow).
For now, I’m keeping Reunion: Coda as the novel’s working title and, possibly, as the final one. However, if you have a better idea for a permanent title, feel free to share your views with the world in the comments section below.
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