rewriting a rock opera

my original intention for the piece i am working on now was to be a rock opera.

i had shown it to my buddy john conrad and had even recorded several of the key songs for the opera while i was a third shift baker.

but...

i don't think i will do that.

instead i am going to make it into another novelette for the book. i am already at 4,337 words and even the skeleton looks shaky.

it's a really powerful story though.

if done well, this will be one of the highlights of the book.

Halfway

It's a dusty day and the sun is low.

Pow! Pow!

Gunshots.

Somewhere, a baby screams.

The smoke stings my nose.

Before me lies twenty three stories.

In the distance... Hoofbeats.

Twenty more.

The book is halfway done.

Editing and Writing tonight

Often, I feel that I cannot go on with my writing career if I have to edit.

That's bologna. It's called perseverance and we all have it.

I just have to dig into mine and take a chunk... EAT IT... And continue on.

So I have today.

I banged out four thousand words tonight since I got home around four.

Kinda feeling tired and my fingers hurt.

Go Book Go!

Woohoo!

One of my main novelettes is almost there!

I need to fix some sentence structure, but it's looking good so far!

23? 40?

Twenty three short stories being edited all at once is a little much... Even for me. The good news is that there will be around forty in the finished book!