Blog 77 posting

It turns out I won’t get to today’s writers group meeting. We’re heading to see Offspring at college (he needs a few more books).

I discovered a major OOPS in the second novel; it is a two year chronological omission that I need to work around. Fortunately there are ideas that fit perfectly into the breech. Still working on the sequence, characters involved and actually reworking the various segments into the rough chapters. Who knew writing could be such drudgery. Ah well, there’s always the thoughts of royalties.

Sooley Base word count hovers around 53,000, a comfortable value at this point. Pone needs to recognize that this includes a certain degree of duplication in the segments, before they’re pulled together and rewritten (several times).

Another tidbit from Golden Gate, the first novel of the Tessera Trilogy –available now as an e-book from Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble. The setting is Vietnam’s Mekong Delta.

As he walked to his barracks he heard it. The sounds grew louder as he approached the hooch.  That’s the Animals – We gotta get outa this place. That fits! He’d share this place with a dozen other JO’s and would come to treasure its infrequent tranquility. The most memorable feature of the hooch was its artwork, which he saw on entering. Its most endearing piece proclaimed it all!

The poster was of a truly menacing soldier. He was weathered, covered with camouflage markings and twigs, elephant grass, mud, sweat, and every conceivable weapon. He had a butt hanging, almost falling, out of his mouth, and looked like hellfire to come. It read in bold, intimidating letters - “Yea though I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death, I will fear no evil – For I am the toughest Mutha in the Valley.”