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4039. I thought I’d have more by now. I had a goal of 5000 total by the end of the day today. I have to go to the grocery store now, and I don’t know how much time I’m going to put in tonight. Oh well, you can only do so much, right?

3450 words total so far. I’m getting a SLOW start this morning. Too much going on around here. I’ve got laundry load number 4 in the washing machine, and we’ve already spent quality time outside with the neighbor watching the backhoe did up a hole in the front lawn for a streetlight. Mr. Dump is not amused, but the guy did tell me that they’lll put loam and seed down when they’re done. Meaning that will be the only decent patch in the front.

I did ask if he would accidently dig up the part of the lawn nearest the driveway, or toss a few tulip bulbs in the open hole when they are filling it, and he just laughed at me. Sheesh, I have to do everything myself.

I’m up, I’m up. It’s raining. Pooh. Everyone here is getting sick, so this could be a fun weekend. In order to avoid working on the novel I have been cleaning the house. This could be the cleanest the house has been since we moved in by the end of the month.

Chapter 1 is done! It might actually become a prologue during the post-November editing cycle. But it’s [checking] 2979 words making up 9 pages.

Prior to this, the longest any “novel” of mine has been is about 20 pages. THe problem is that I would go back and edit and second guess and just start to hate what I’d written. With this book, I try to stop in the middle of a sentence so I can force myself to start writing again, if only to finish the sentence. And I don’t read any further back than 2 pages when starting up. It’s working for me so far.

Okay, belly full of chinese food (GOD BLESS MR. DUMP!) and I have to write some more. This is already tedious. I hope I don’t end up hating my main character. 2441 as of right now.