Word Count, Vol. 3:  9649.  Thanks to All Who Bought Echo!  And BIG THANKS to Melissa, Barbara, Ian, Lorna, [anonymous], Lisa, Meg, Matt and Bobby for posting AMAZING reviews on Amazon!!!  And Ashley as well for the 5 star on Nook!

News:  Was studying some Dark Tower, (I actually do study fiction, in that I look to see how storytellers break from all that training I’ve received in school for writing essays) and I saw something curious:  what I later found out was the em-dash!  AAAGGH!  I’ve been using n-dashes all along, and I’ve been super careful with ’em because I thought they were the only option!  I didn’t want too many n-dashes because I thought they could double as a denoter AND as a hyphen!  Now I see that King uses the m-dash as a denoter, and since it looks different, is able to put a hyphenated word immediately after it without screwing up the meaning!  What the hell!  Were any of the rest of you taught about the m-dash???  Can’t believe I’m just figuring this out now!

Anyways, forget all that.  I’m almost 10k into volume 3, and I’ve finally, FINALLY been able to touch on some of the astral interaction type stuff which I had been greatly looking forward to doing since I started writing Echo about a year ago.  Pretty crazy when it takes you a full year to get around to writing directly about some of the events/set pieces that inspired you to do the story in first place.  I’m looking forward to painting out some crazy, extradimensional scenes, especially action sequences.  Don’t want to give out too many phrases that i’ve come up with, but I buzz with nerd excitement when I think about them.  (I actually write down phrases I think are cool/have great story potential) on a whiteboard above my desk).

Ok, back to work!  To all you writers, I wish you inspired drafting and insightful editing!