(I'm spending too much time in the server room, lately)
I think the world has cast bets against me completing the work on my first book. As many responsibilities as I take on, my lovely wife is always ready to give me more and inform me that I have not taken on my share of the workload at home. She is probably right. I have to admit that, but only because her opinion is the only one that matters.
Regardless, I have gotten much closer to my goal of finishing the thing. It's gone form a labor of love to being a sightless thing, lurking in the cloud. My book, "Seedling Jack," has reached a word count of 65,226. That makes me happy, both because I am making good progress, and because there is still room to say the rest of what I want to say in the story. It doesn't feel rushed and it does feel natural. I am still sure I'll hit around 72,000 - 80,000 by the time this book is finished, but my goodness, this hunting for time to work on it is making me nuts. I haven't had time on my lunch breaks in weeks. Working on the manuscript at home is just not happening. Do you ever get the sense that I should give up? I don't. I reread the story from page one to 282 and I still get tickled by the way it all unfolds. So, I'll make sure I finish it.
I'm working on building the finale, piece by piece. The big showdown. It's odd that I started the book as a ghost story and stuck a friend or two in the mix for good fun and now, the characters have run away with the story. I will be posting the story chapter by chapter up to about chapter eight soon. It will post to Mayachrome.com, my home page. I'll announce it here, but if you are curious, and patiently waiting, I will post it by the beginning of October. The book should be wrapped up by then, and I will send out the first portion of the book so you all know what it's about and if you'd like to read the full version. I am still torn on whether to put it out on Kindle Direct, or to just make paper books available. I may do both. Hopefully, a publisher will pick it up, but who knows.
In the meantime, adieu.
D. Paul Fonseca
P. S. Writing is not my main source of income, and so my domestic goddess sees no real value in spending my time with it. Do any of you fellow writers ever get that kind of feedback from your spouse? Just Curious.
D.
