I finally finished the first draft of "The Auctioneer" today. It's shorter than I'd hoped, about 75,000 words, but I usually add on my subsequent drafts so by the time it is completed it should be about 90,000 words. Most people take out words and whole sections and plotlines when they revise. I do some of that, but I also tend to add a lot more, like doing the framework for a new house and then adding all the finish work It's a strange way of doing things, I guess, but it works for me.
And "Mowa Lettahs From Maine" should be ready to publish within a week or two. The stories are coming easily, the only problem is the cover. I'm contemplating putting it out in print as well as digitally, but I'm unsure about how to do the cover. So most likely I will just publish it as an ebook, like the first one. "Lettahs From Maine" continues to sell, slow but steady, so I'm hoping the new one will do as well. I have ideas for more of the Lettahs From Maine series (yes, it has somehow become a series) so stay tuned.
Thinking about going to the beach tonight. I usually play with Sam for a little while, then go for a walk or sit in my chair and read. Seth used to love the beach, but now he is too cool to hang out at the beach with his parents. I'd say I was never like that as a teenager but, of course, I was.
Almost as exciting as finishing the first draft of my story: I have a couple of tomatoes growing in my garden. I'm a wicked fahmah, yessah.
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