200 Pages, Woo Hoo!

This morning, for some unknown reason, my alarm went off an hour early. (Let it be known that my Pocket PC is my alarm clock.) I got to the ferry early and, as I usually do, worked on my novel. I've been working on this novel, off and on, for about a year now. Lately I've mostly been editing and restructuring, so that when I continue I'm building on a better foundation, but the past couple weeks a couple of the characters have spoken to me and given me ideas for them.

I was so entranced in typing that I didn't notice the ferry pull up. It was when the herd stood and moved as one towards the gangplank that I went, "Uh oh!" and saved my file, put my laptop into standby and joined the herd. Moo.

It wasn't until I was actually on board the ferry that I noticed something odd. It was like a strange dream. Like taking a drink of Coke and finding Pepsi. Nothing in the ferry was where it usually was. The stairs were different, the seats were different, the decks were different. Where was I?

Well, it turns out that my usual ferry was in the shop, and this was one of the slower ones instead of the high speed ferry I always took. So I was a little late to work, but on the other hand...

I broke the 200-page barrier! My novel is now almost 201 pages, over 70,000 words. Only 100 pages to go. I don't think I'll make it this month, but if I finish it this year I'll be a happy man.

"Once you have planted a tree, sired a child and written a book, then you are a man." - Russian Proverb


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