It is the first day of summer today – and extremely hot! Not to mention that we don’t have any water. I guess something is wrong with the motor, and the uncles say it may be a couple weeks before we get it fixed. I swear, I’ll go to the pool and pay three bucks to take a shower.
I’ve been working on Chapter XII lately. I’m pretty far into it now, just about ready to fire up the main event of Oren. I can’t wait to get the next trial done and move on to the third. Plus, I have the scene before that written already, so it will be easy when I get there, just insert it into the main document. I’m now about 73,000 words into the draft. I’m probably going to send it to an online press and order an editing copy (I probably already mentioned that). I think I’m going to use Book Patch, because I like their formatting better than lulu .
Sarah made up a song about my book yesterday, using the tune of Fireflies by Owl City. I don’t remember all of it, but I remember something along the lines of the following:
“Argent didn’t have a daddy, so she called on Leaf and asked what she should do. Leaf said “f**k off,” and they began to wonder aimlessly in the woods. Then Leaf looked up and said “there’s Whisker.” Then he looked up again and saw Whisker in a new light. He got all flimsy and weak, then he kissed her on the cheek, and they got married and had kids named (the names were so off-the-wall I can’t remember them).”
Anyhow, by the end of the song, Leaf was in prison for sexual assault and abuse, and Argent so kindly pointed out that she could not love Leaf because he was supposed to die the following week. I hope it is obvious that my sister has never actually read the book, but simply knows the names and genders of the characters (however, at one point, she mention Galtero and Leben).
I redrew the map – again! It looks pretty good so far, but not done yet.
Well, my toe is still numb – going on two weeks now – so I shall make an appointment to get checked out. Some of our cats might have rabies.
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