Annabelle Cloud

    • 60k

      Another milestone on my wip. I hit 60k words tonight. That’s a really tidy additional 20k words over the last 2 weeks. So 3/4 of the way through to what I consider to be the target for first draft. My writing tool Scrivener has my Paperback output now at ~250 pages. I do think it’s going to start slowing down again now though, as teasing out the end of this story is going to start getting more difficult. I’d love to be able to hit 70k by the end of the month! But, if I’m honest, I’ll take anything I can get that keeps the momentum up.

    • 40k

      The Many Dreams of Annabelle Cloud - Cover Artwork.

      Major milestone with this work in progress. I know it’s taken me a long time of trying to find my way through this story, but I finally hit 40k words. That’s exactly half way to the target I set myself.

      Now I just need to keep the momentum going!

    • The Girl in the Picture

      The girl in the picture said that her name was Kailee, but I was sure she was lying. So, for a while, I called her Dilly, after the nursery rhyme, Lavender blue dilly dilly, Lavender green. She didn’t like that. 

      Whenever she was grating my nerves, I would just say, “Yes, Dilly Dilly,” and she would stop grating my nerves. She would stamp her feet, stick out her tongue, and then frown like an old man thinking. 

      She insisted that her hair was red, but it wasn’t. It was bright like the sun, sparkled like the stars, and smelled of the ocean.

      Mum bought her for me at a car boot sale. Paid fifty pence for her. She could have paid twenty-five pence, but the smallest thing she had was a fifty pence piece, and she said that she felt guilty asking for change.