Mere Being - 035 - October

A few days after last month's issue I got sick again — fever, several days fully in bed, the whole bit — and then about a week of house guests, so it's been another month with that "hole punched through it" feeling. And now it's November! We've shifted fully from "the leaves are starting to turn" to "the leaves are dropping, and there are still a few trees hanging on." Big sections of the park are bare.Word count for the Special Project now stands at 45,891 words. This is a little disappointing — less than 4,000 words in October, when I'd hoped to have more like 10,000 — but see "hole punched through the month," above. I still expect to be able to hit my ultimate 90,000 word goal for the first pass by the end of January. Will, at that point, I have something that even resembles a novel? Unclear. I have a lot of individual bits and pieces that I like, events and characters and moments, but every time I feel like it's coming together into a story I become dissatisfied, the direction I…

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