Musings & Thoughts for Monday, April 22, 2024, or: One Week Ends, Another Begins

Late Morning, Monday, April 22, 2024, Madison, New Hampshire

Hi, folks, and…it’s Monday! (Yay?)

As I begin this, my 1,505^th post in A Certain Point of View, Too, it is a cold spring morning in New England. Currently, the temperature is 37°F (3°C) under sunny conditions. With the wind blowing from the north-northwest at 8 MPH (13 Km/H) and humidity at 42%, the feels-like temperature is 41°F (5°C). Today’s forecast calls for sunny skies throughout the day and a high of 51°F (11°C). Tonight, we can expect clear skies and a low of 26°F (-4°C).

Weekend Update, Part the Second – My Sunday

In essence, Sunday, April 21, 2024, was a repetition of the previous day, except for one important detail: I didn’t feel like working on Reunion: Coda except for a few promotional activities. I shared a “reel” I created for my Alex Diaz-Granados’s Author Page on Facebook in the morning, and late last night I wrote a “state of the novel” post for my original A Certain Point of View on Blogger.  

Aside from that, I:

• Listened to music on my PC’s Amazon Music app
• Read bits and pieces from some of my “how to write” books
• Argued with strangers on Twitter and Facebook
• Went outside for a short walk and snapped a couple of photos with my phone’s camera
• Played Crusade in Europe but had to quit because there was no way to save the Campaign game (someone needs to design and publish a modern version of Crusade in Europe, with the same scenarios and ease of play, but with 21^st Century graphics, sounds, and – most importantly – the ability to save games in the “cloud”)
• Thought (a great deal) about the good women that I’ve loved (and loved me), as well as women I’d love to “be with”
• Made chili dogs for the first time since I left Miami slightly over eight years ago
• Attempted to watch – but failed…again – Ridley Scott’s Alien Covenant

That’s it. No more, no less.

On Writing & Storytelling: Action This Day

Today, of course, is the beginning of a new workweek, so I will be working on Reunion: Coda. More specifically, I will be continuing the first scene of the novel’s fifteenth chapter. I plan to begin my rest-and-recreation break as early as possible, then come back to my desk and write as much as possible, for as long as possible. It’s a simple plan, and if I follow it to the letter, it should be a successful one.

As for where I stand with Reunion: Coda as of this blog post, here are the current stats:

As of this writing, the manuscript of Reunion: Coda has 15 chapters: a prologue, plus 13 finished chapters and another one currently being written. According to Microsoft Word, the document contains 86,887 words and is 203 pages long. (Of course, the page count is higher on the Kindle Create app and WriteItNow creative writing program because on Word, the page size is 8.5 X 11.  The other apps assume that the novel will be formatted for 9 X 6 pages in the paperback, so the page count on them is already past 300.

Well, that’s all I have for you today, so I’ll take my leave of you. Until next time, stay safe, stay healthy, and I’ll catch you on the sunny side of things.