The Tourist (9)

13/05/10
It is Thursday after my ‘work hours’, that is after I have repainted the days quota (1) of chapters from my new novel, The Tourist. My week’s quota of work (see Tourist (8) hereof) was to get to chapter 94, the last of the dummy chapters to be rewritten before the book reached chapter 95, the last chapter pro-tem of the book (actually a repaint of chapter type 1). As predicted however, the logic of the story and the accuracy of the structure necessitated adding more ‘new’ dummy chapters using earlier chapter types. There are now 104 putative chapters, with chapters 89, 92, 94, 96, 97, 99, 100, 101, and 102 yet to be repainted. Call that 10 days work, or 2 work weeks. But... there may be more chapter additions and (my hunch) elimination of two or chapters. What does this mean? I refer you to The Tourist (1) to The Tourist (8) hereof for the (almost incredible) explanation. For what it’s worth, the word count as of May 13, 2010 is 99,857!

Six more sleeps until The Launch Pad Coffee Shop on May 19 at Churchill Park United Church, 525 Beresford. Doors open at 7:30PM. Open mike for all sorts of talents starts at 8:00PM.
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