Full Speed Ahead

I should be putting these words toward my novel but here goes anyways. Sorry for neglecting my blog but if you read my last post you should be well aware that I am in the midst of writing a novel (50,000 words in 30 days). For all you non-mathmeticians out there thats over 1500 words per day. Plus I have a full-time job that occupies most of my days. So needless, to say I am very very busy lady.

I appreciate all your support for my novel and it is going really great. I am now at 32,000 words in only 12 days which means I have 18 days to write the remaining 18,000 - I believe that's 1,000 words per day which is very manageable. Right now I am averaging about 2,000 words a day so I'm right on track.

I'm liking the direction of my novel so far. It is sort of an autobiography embellished quite a bit. The title is The Quest for the Holy Diamond and it is a story of a girl desperately trying to get her boyfriend to propose to her all the while driving him and everyone else around her crazy. Will she get the guy and the diamond she has been asking for or will she get the boot?

For all of you who are interested, below is a snippet of my novel so far. I will eventually publish it (even if I have to self-publish) and for those of you who are interested, I will tell you how to purchase it (if it ever makes it that far). For now, you can read parts on here. Hope you enjoy!

I got up later than I had planned the next morning so I hurriedly got ready. The phone rang just as I was headed out the door. I debated not answering it but since I didn’t have caller ID on my house phone it would drive me crazy wondering who was calling. I picked up on the second ring.
“Hello?”
“Good morning baby.”
It was Ryan. I was surprised to hear from he. He didn’t usually call in the mornings.
“Hey. To what do I owe this pleasure?”
“I missed you. I hated sleeping last night without you, Em.”
“I miss you too.”
“I have a surprise for you when I get back.”
“A diamond ring?”
“You know I already ordered that, baby.”
“Yeah right.”
“I did. It’s on its way from Aboo Dobi.”
“Uh huh. That’s what you said three weeks ago and it still hasn’t arrived.”
“It takes awhile to get here from Aboo Dobi. Plus they are sending it pony express.”
“Pony express? What happened to snail mail?”
“All the snails are extinct in Aboo Dobi. They use ponies.”
“Well, when did you order it?”
“A few weeks ago.”
“I would think the pony would be here by now.”
“Well, it would have been but they ran into a problem.” “A problem? What problem?”
“The pony fell and broke his leg.” “So tell them to call another pony.”
“I did but they said it was their last pony.” “Their last pony? That’s not even possible.” “I know, that’s what I said. I told them I needed that ring right away and asked if there was anything I could do to get it here faster.”
“And what’d they say?” “They said there was one thing I could do.”
“So do it. I need that ring, Ryan. I need that ring right now and I won’t take no for an answer! What did they tell you to do.”
“They had to put it on a camel to send it the rest of the way.”
“Really. A camel? Do they even have camels in Aboo Dobi? What is it a desert or something?” “They have tons of camels. In fact, they are camel farmers there.”
“Well, I hope they gave you a discount and it was one of those speedy camels because we’re on a deadline here. We’re getting married in 10 months.”
“Oh it’ll be here. The camel is trotting along just as fast as a camel can possibly move which if you ask me isn’t that much faster than a snail and a snail probably would have been cheaper than a camel. Yes, a snail would have definitely been cheaper. I’m going to go with snail mail.”
“Sure, honey. Thanks. Sorry to run but I am supposed to be meeting Tessa in 10 minutes and I’m going to be late. Thanks for calling. I love you.”
“Love you too. I’ll see you tomorrow.”
I had to admit it was a creative story. It very creatively pissed me off. Ryan and me had been dating for over two years. Much longer that Tessa had been dating Johnny – in fact it was one year and nine months longer than Tessa had been dating Johnny. Yet I felt like Ryan wasn’t any closer to popping the question that he was when we first started dating. Not that I was surprised really. Ryan didn’t get around to anything in a timely manner. At this pace, I would probably be engaged by my 50th birthday. Of course then it would be another 15 years before I got Ryan down the aisle.

To be continued...