Google Alerts and Writing

So, I signed up for Google Alerts. This is a free service from Google that emails you once a day with a link when your name (in my case) or any other search term pops up in their radar. Thanks to Google, I see that David Louis Edelman found my review of his book MultiReal. (Apparently he has a Google Alert too.) Click here to read his thoughts and find out the title of his next book.

In other news, I haven't done a lick of writing for several days, so the itch is developing. Actually, that's probably a good thing, since several thoughts have coalesced (or maybe coagulated, not sure) into a plan to finish Space Rescue 2.0. First, and as reported elsewhere, I really need a chapter where my POV bad girl makes her getaway from town. Second, after watching the wonderful movie Open Range, I need to redo my climax. In the outline, I had a climax at the prison break of the hostages. There's a shootout which follows, but as written it's tacked on. Alas, the breakout is too easy, so that shootout has to be the climax. Thus the shootout needs to be beefed up.

Part of that beefing up involves stealing paying homage to Open Range by splitting the shootout up into two chapters. The first chapter will be up to a point where the good guys are stuck, and the follow-on chapter will be them getting un-stuck.

Since I really need to get to 80,000 words, needing to add chapters is a good thing, and this should put me close enough to the mark for government work. Well, now that I've bored you all to tears, I return you to your regularly-scheduled programming.