Late Morning, Saturday, February 10, 2024, Madison, New Hampshire
Greetings and salutations. It is a chilly but sunny late winter morning here in my corner of New England. Currently, the temperature is 47°F (8°C) under sunny skies. With humidity at 66% and the wind blowing from the south-southwest at 1 MPH (2 Km/H), it feels like 64°F (18°C). Today’s forecast calls for mostly sunny skies and a high of 54°F (12°C). Tonight, skies will be mostly clear, and the low will be 31°F (0°C)
On Writing & Storytelling: Fixes and Touchups
Although I hoped to get started on Scene Five of Reunion: Coda’s 13th chapter yesterday, Goodbye, Farewell, and Adios, I ended up revising existing material instead. Mostly, of course, to Scene Four of the current chapter, but I also took the time to go over the entire manuscript and make a couple of fixes and touchups, most of which were minor – typos or bits of dialogue that needed a bit more polish.
As of this writing, Reunion: Coda is – as I’ve said in previous posts – the longest project I’ve ever written. Per Word’s Word Count function, it is 180 pages long (including, of course, the title page) and has 75,096 words. I don’t do outlines or plan every plot point in advance, so I can’t say for sure, but I think I only have two more chapters to go before I type the words The End and go through the next steps of the publication process.
I don’t believe that I will work on Reunion: Coda today. It’s Saturday, and I usually don’t like to work on weekends. Non-writers – most of whom are also non-readers – don’t understand that writing is a job, a tough, lonely, and often tiring one, and even though I love it (otherwise I wouldn’t do it at all), I need to take breaks on weekends.
Saturday’s Agenda
Today I will do a few housekeeping chores in my two rooms – vacuum, make my bed, and try to organize things a bit better there. I’ll also do some laundry, which I dislike doing, but I must do it regardless.
I’ll also put on my boots, winter jacket, hat, scarf, and gloves, grab my hiking poles, and go out for my usual walk outside.
After that? Well, I suppose I’ll choose an activity from my usual leisure time menu, which currently consists of:
- Listening to music either on Amazon Music or on CD (if I use my Blu-ray player as a CD player since my ONN portable stereo is in one of the boxes stored in the garage)
- Reading (either on the Kindle app I have on my PC and Amazon Fire tablet, or “real” hardcovers or paperbacks)
- Watching movies or TV shows I have on disc
- Gaming
- Spending time on Facebook, Twitter/X, or Instagram
Well, as John Wayne says in The Cowboys, I’m burning daylight, so I’ll close here. Until next time, stay safe, stay healthy, stay warm, and I’ll catch you on the sunny side of things.
A Certain Point of View, Too 
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5 responses to “Musings & Thoughts for Saturday, February 10, 2024, or: Reunion: Coda Update…and Weekend Plans (Such As They Are)”
Currently 180 pages and two more chapters, so maybe 210 pages? That’s a good size novel.
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I’m not going to predict/set a specific word count. It might end up being 250 pages, it might end up being 230 pages, plus “back matter” pages such as “Acknowledgements,” “Note from the Author,” etc. I do think the forecast of two more chapters might be 60% accurate. That having been said, there’s some room for error in my predictions.
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Yes I realize my guess at 210 was too low. I was just guessing 180 pages 12 chapters, is 15 pages per chapter so 2 more chapters make 180 + 30. But I didn’t consider acknowledgements and other things at the end, and of course the chapters could be longer.
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I loved that Stephen King book. I found it very interesting to think a person could go back in time and change history.
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11/22/63?
That’s one of my fave King novels of his all the books I’ve owned or read of his, and it’s definitely the best of his 21st Century works. I even have the miniseries on Blu-ray.
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