Friday JohnKu – AKA – TGIF

~ John W. Howell
“Twiggy. What is that thing?”
“It’s my eel toy. I’m celebrating Friday.”
“Good luck with that.”

 

Friday. So good to see your smiling face. We can celebrate making it another week. Here in Texas, we got hit by a cold front that took the wind chills down into the basement. Man, it was cold. We are not expected to get back to the 70s until next week. I know, I know you folks in the North have no sympathy. My only defense in being such a weenie is if I wanted to be chilled to the bone I would have moved to Alaska. At least I would know what is waiting for me during the winter. This year here the temps went from the 90s to the 30s overnight. No chance to get used to a gradual decline.

The WIP editing is coming along. I’m at page 223 out of 300. I also cut out about 2000 words so far and am down to 93,000. I would say I’ll be finished in another eight days or so.

This week’s JohnKu talks about having to cut precious words from a manuscript. I hope you have a great weekend.

Sacrifice by John W. Howell © 2019

You hate to do it,

The words were hard to come by . . .

Sacrifice is tough.

55 thoughts on “Friday JohnKu – AKA – TGIF”

  5. It will be interesting to see if your temps go up as fast as they went down. Meanwhile, stay warm and continue editing. … but I can’t believe Twiggy prefers the eel over the burger!

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  8. But you’re making it better for us – thanks John.

    BTW, we’re not expected to make it back into the 70s until April. Then again, February surprised us with two days in the 70s, so you never can tell. Give the girls a scritch from Maddie.

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  10. The editing is the hardest part, isn’t it? Cutting out words or sections that no longer fit in the big picture. But you’re right, it must be done!

    Although you are right, it is hard to feel bad for you, a 60-degree drop is enough to traumatize anyone!! That is nutso!

    Hope you have a fabulous weekend!

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  11. Editing is for sure the hardest part of writing a story. Trying to decide what goes and what stays isn’t easy. Yes, this Texas weather has been CRAZY! I’m sure we’ll have more dips like that but for now, we’ll enjoy the 70s!

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  14. He is amazing, John! And so frosty blue! Your poem is so true! Any sacrifice is hard. I’m very sorry to hear about the weather. Too much cold is not pretty nice at all! Keep up struggling! Have a nice week-end!

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  16. Sounds like you’re making excellent progress on the editing stage, John — hard to “kill the darlings,” but it usually makes a book read better (and that’s what we all want). A 60-degree temperature drop is nothing to mess with — at least you can look forward to its being short-lived!

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