A Writer's Life

 IT IS A NEW MONTH...AUGUST 2, 2025 LAST MONTH I WROTE 185 PAGES I AM STILL WORKING ON MY ZOMBIE NOVEL.....I AM ON PAGE...172 I MUST ADMIT...I AM ON CHAPTER 7...BUT CAME UP WITH A NEW OPENING SCENE...NEW FEMALE LEAD....SO I AM STARTING OVER...HOPING TO SAVE WHAT I HAVE WRITTEN SO FAR....I KNOW I AM MAKING IT MORE COMPLACATED THAN I HAVE TO 1.  WANT TIME TRAVEL 2. ROMANCE  3.  ZOMBIES I AM DEALING WITH TIME TRAVEL 1. WHO WILL TIME TRVEL? 2. IS IT JUST ONE TIME?  OR MORE THAN ONE TIME? WHAT IS THE OBJECT TO TIME TRAVEL SO I HAVE BEEN DOING ALOT OF THINKING STILL WRITING EVERYDAY WROTE 5 PAGES TODAY WROTE 6 PAGES YESTERDAY SEE WHAT HAPPENS THIS MONTH

 MY MINOR WALK ON CHARACTER....NOW MAIN CHARACTER....HERIONE...OF THE BOOK AM REWORKING THE PLOT OF THE BOOK ON PAGE 145....I KNOW I WILL HAVE TO HAVE A MAJOR REWRITE  I JUST WANT TO SEE WHAT ELSE MY CHARACTERS ARE UP TO.... SO I WILL KEEP WRITING AND SEE WHAT THEY WILL DO NEXT I WROTE5 PAGES TODAY TOTAL PAGE COUNT FORJULY IS 167 PAGES

 JULY 25TH 2025 PAGE COUNT THIS MONTH 154 PAGES PAGE COUNT FOR ZOMBIE NOVEL....154 YES MY MINOR CHARACTER IS NOW A MAJOR CHARACTER I WM GIVING HER...HER OWN VIEW POINT SHE WILL KNOW THE HISTORY OF THE UNDEAD....KNOW ABOUT THE PORTALS TO TIME TRAVEL....SO I AM JUSTVWRITING....NOT GOING TO START OVER AND REWRITE IT THIS IS A ROUGH DRAFT...WANT TO SEE WHERE IT GOES ZOMBIE THIS

I I WAS WORKING ON MY ZOMBIE NOVEL.....I NEEDED A MINOR CHARACTERTO WALK INTO THE SCENE.....THE CHARACTER WALKED IN....AND SHE WAS NOT LEAVING....SHE STARTED TALKING....SHE ADDED DEPTH TO THE PLOT AND MORE CONFLICT....SHE WANTED TO BE ONE OF THE MAIN CHARACTERS.....THIS WOULD CHANGE THE ENTIRE STORY LINE....THAT IS WHY THEY CALL IT A ROUGH DRAFT.....SO NOW.....I AM WORKING ON HER BACK STORY...AND SHE EXPLAINS TO ME WHY SHE SHOULD BE THE MAIN CHARACTER......I HAVE TO AGREE..........I AM 100 PAGES INTO THIS STORY...SORT OF PLOTTED OUT...NOW WHAT????....IT IS A ROUGH DRAFT...SO I WILL CONTINUE TO WRITE THE ROUGH DRAFT AND SEE WHERE IT GOES.....I AM NOW ON PAGE 115.....NOT SURE WHAT WILL HAPPEN.....BUT IT SURE IS FUN....  

 I WROTE 10 PAGES TODAY SO I AM UP TO PAGE 90.....ON MY ZOMBIE NOVEL IT IS VERY ROUGH DRAFT....I AM JUST WRITING TO SEE WHERE THE STORY GOES BUT I DO HAVE THE BEGINNING AND THE END.....FIGURED OUT THE FIRST SCENE.....THE LAST SCENE.... I HAVE THR MIDPOINT OF THE BOOK FIGURED OUT ALSO SAVE THE CAT HORROR BOOK.....COMES OUT SEPTEMBER 9TH....BUY ON AMAZON ONCE I GET THAT BOOK....I CAN SEE WHERE MY PLOTTING PROBLEMS ARE THEN I WILL WRITER THE RE-WRITE I AM WRITING WITH PILOT PENS I AM NOT USING A COMPUTER LOOKING FOR A GOOD MANUAL TYPEWRITER

 YESTERDAY...I WROTE 10 PAGES TODAY....I WROTE 7 PAGES.. TOTAL AMOUNT FOR THIS MONTH....JULY....84 IT IS LOWER THAN THE PAST MONTHS... ON MY NEW ZOMBIE NOVEL....I HAVE WRITTEN 84 PAGES WORKING IN PLOTTING... I HAVE AN IDEA FOR THE OPENING SCENE I HAVE AN IDEA FOR THE FINAL SCENE I HAVE AN IDEA FOR THE MID POINT SO I THINKING I AM MOVING RIGHT ALONG