Grocery shopping with Van Gogh
I'm noticing an increase in the amount of "What are you doing these days?" inquiries, so I think it's time to hop back onto the ol' Blogger and bring you up to date with my book progress. Things are going well. I'm splitting my time between working on the book and some family business stuff, so I'm not writing every day, but I'm writing consistently. Every week I'm able to get around 3,000 to 4,000 words written which is a moderate success. I'm at about 54,000 right now which, according to the length of your average historical narrative, is about halfway. It's difficult to measure these things, though, because it's a rough draft. The story could end up being much longer - because I have a mountain of research to draw from - or much shorter - because an editor just crossed out that mountain of research and more. My biggest realization from my last post (has it been almost two months already?) is that I'm feeling this weird di...