There were two things I was going to do when the event started; first, I was going to snap a pic of the crowd in attendance - from my point of view - waving at the camera and then tweet it; second, I was going to start a timer to make sure I didn't cut anything too short or talk for too long (figured the nerves may cause me to do one, the other, or both). Forgot to do either. Needless to say once I was introduced by Connie Barnes, the bookstore owner, and what a lovely intro it was, I started right in. Overall, I can't complain. I sold a few books, signed a bunch of copies, and had a lot of laughs and questions to answer that everyone seemed genuinely interested to hear. Like I said, can't complain.
But now vacation is over.
And I'm excited.
Yesterday morning, just after the alarm went off at six, I sat down and started in on another novel. I try to do a thousand words per day. In just over an hour I managed to get in my thousand. This morning it took me less than an hour. Things are beginning very well. Of course there will be those days when I struggle to reach my thousand-word goal, but so far so good.
I don't really have a plan with this book except to write it and to do so without planning anything out at all. I haven't plotted, only sketched a general premise. That's big for me.
Unfortunately it's too early for me to say anything more about the book. I dropped this shot on Twitter yesterday morning, and for now, that'll have to do.
