{"id":3048,"date":"2024-08-26T05:58:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T05:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/?p=3048"},"modified":"2024-08-26T00:47:21","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T00:47:21","slug":"back-to-the-real-world-writing-update-august-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/back-to-the-real-world-writing-update-august-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to the Real World \u2013 Writing Update \u2013 August 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I\u2019ve spent weeks getting ready for visits and visiting with family. Those were weeks where my only writing consisted of working on blog posts and doing a few critiques. And it\u2019s true that I did fit in writing one short story. Now I need to get back to the serious business of writing novels.<\/p>\n

Unleashed for Murder<\/strong><\/em> is at 31,000 words of an intended 75,000, or just under halfway. I\u2019m working on reading through what I\u2019ve written to refresh my memory. That should let me roll into the second half with some momentum.<\/p>\n

I’ve made a few edits as I go through, but so far, the structure is holding up. I can\u2019t say I know how it will all resolve. I rarely know exactly how any story I write is going to work out at the halfway point. I have a few ideas about what\u2019s going to happen next. Maybe I know who the murderer is. I have a suspect. But I won\u2019t be surprised if that\u2019s wrong.<\/p>\n

More than once in the writing of a story I\u2019ve found that the person I thought would be the villain turned out not to be. That\u2019s one of the things that keeps me writing. And I hope that it makes the story more exciting for readers, too. We\u2019re both eager to get answers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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