As the headline reads, I hope to get some more of my Cozy Murder Mystery written today. It is Saturday today, so from after breakfast, to after lunchtime and after, until getting on to tea time, the house will be mine. Well, mine and Missy’s of course. If Missy the dog needs to go out, that’s my role …
I actually wrote a tiny bit more of this first Murder Mystery book yesterday, and a very cosy little piece it was too. My main character, and one dear old lady from their quaint little town were having a visit to the local hotel, for some lunch, and to discuss … Murder! I haven’t actually written about the murder, yet, but today, Gert may well make the suggestion about the possibility of it, or at least get Meredith thinking about it, anyway.
I’m enjoying writing this, and I really wish I would give more of my time to getting this first book in my series of Cosy Murder Mysteries written. I have this mystery series planned in advance, with book titles, and characters, both the main character, who will be the amateur sleuth who solves the crimes, to some possible bad people, and lots of possible helpers, or suspects throughout the series.
My main character, Meredith, is a newcomer to town, working at the council office, as the Towns Coordinator, a new role, that she took over from someone else, who left abruptly. Meredith doesn’t know why the job became available, she was just happy to get the two year role, and hopes it may continue on for longer.
So, I’ve written some of the second book in this series, and some of the first book. I am currently aiming at getting all of the first book written, and edited, before I do any more on the second book. Once that is done, I’ll get other people to read it and give me feedback. I have a few writer friends who will happily perform this task for me, and they are eagerly awaiting the completion of “Winds of Death at Talloola”! All I have to do is get on and finish writing it.
So, why am I fluffing around with this blog post, you may ask? Well, I am doing it to guilt myself into writing some every day, every morning, at least 200 more words in the first book. Two hundred words should be an easy half an hour or so of writing, and I should easily be able to manage that small amount of time, after breakfast, every day. Whether on my laptop, or on my phone, the same file is there, in the same format, with the same new words.
No excuses, it is today, after breakfast, and I have at least two hundred words to write! I’m planning on many more words that that today though, the house is mine, the time is mine, and I will gradually, as the pace of my thoughts and written words helps to dry out my clothes that were spattered by the hose nozzle that kept flying off as I completed my main ‘house/yard work’ task for the day, which was water the bonsai trees and others as needed.
That’s done, as evidenced by the water all over me, and now I’m wondering if that incident may have a role in this book, or one of the others to come … Everything that happens in life is possible fodder for their writing, for a keen writer!
That is all I’m saying, other than to say this – I have currently have 3,897 words in ‘Winds of Death at Talloola’ the first book of my “At Talloola” Cosy Murder Mystery series, and by the end of the day, I want to have many more than two hundred words added to that total! I will check back much later today, and give the running total in the comments!
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