Musings & Thoughts for Wednesday, June 12, 2024, or: Rainy ‘Hump Day’ Brings Showers and Modest Writing Goals

Midday/Early Afternoon, Wednesday, June 12, 2024, Madison, New Hampshire

Madison Summer Almanac

Hi, everyone. It’s a temperate (although, for me, chilly) day here in Madison. The current temperature is 72°F (22°C) under rainy conditions. With the wind blowing from the east at 3 MPH (5 Km/H) and humidity at 54%, the feels-like temperature is 82°F (28°C). Today’s forecast calls for scattered rain showers and a high of 72°F (22°C). Tonight, we can expect scattered light rain showers. The low will be 51°F (10°C).

The weather today is a disappointment. I usually like to stay indoors by choice and habit, but I don’t like being trapped against my will. I wanted to go outside for a short walk during my midday break that’s been pushed back. But now it’s raining, and I don’t know when it will stop. According to the radar images on my PC’s weather app, the Conway/Madison area might catch a break from the dull and wet weather and get some sunshine later. That’s what I’m hoping for, anyway.

On Writing & Storytelling: The View from Midweek

I didn’t get around to writing Chapter 18 yesterday – the weather was bleak, and I felt drained and dull. But I did scribble down a rough outline for the opening scene. It’s not very elaborate, though. It gives a glimpse of the place and the problem; it’s a Jim-in-action scene in his classroom at Columbia University, and it sets up a confrontation with a minor bad guy in the novel. It even hints at a plot…or something like that. But it’s still a skeleton outline that needs some meat on its bones.

Since the Reunion: Coda manuscript stayed the same, so did the numbers from Saturday’s status update. If you didn’t catch that post, here they are again:

Number of Chapters Completed (Including the Prologue): 17

Number of Pages (Including the Title Page): 390

Number of Words: 98,423

Note: The paper size is nine inches by six inches, the suggested option for paperback books at Kindle Direct Publishing.

My productivity might take a hit today, since I’m pushing back my lunch break by an hour. I don’t think I’ll write a lot, but I can work on adding more details to the outline for Scene One of the new chapter.

Slow and steady wins the race, people. Slow and steady.