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 If it comes out in fast speed when you click this button, click the download button and it should play at normal speed. Weird, weird.  And yeah, I'm getting a new sound card and microphone this week. Between the old one and this cold, I sound like I'm underwater.

First, Dennis the Greyhound puppy is great! Six weeks old and just TOO cute.

Monday was a light day, 2500 words, but I expected that, give my schedule. Hit a nice rhythm and made some good decisions, though.

Tuesday, around 10,000 words. Weds, 8,000. My brain is a bit fried, so today, Thursday, will be relatively light.

A few questions have come up so I thought I’d answer those. First, my logline. I preach log lines. I make everyone in my class do log lines. I do them myself.

The logline for this one started out like this:

When the unthinkable happens and her teacher is killed and an evil force stalks the land, Bree must overcome her own fighting weaknesses and comfortable lifestyle in order to pick up the reins of her own destiny.

Now, obviously, that’s trite, clichéd and simplistic. It’s been refined since then, but this is where I started. My principle is always to just get something down on paper, a starting point, then refine it.

Conflicts:
Physical: pretty obvious
Spiritual: ki v. Christianity
Mental: What is happening with the music.
Emotional: change of dojo/style, loss of friends

Second – define bestseller. Hmmm. Okay, that requires talking about how this book will go. Most probably, I’ll pass it by my agents and see if they think it’s commercial. If so, a six figure advance will be my mark of a bestseller. If they pass on it, I’ll print it myself and I’ll arbitrarily call 10,000 copies sold as a bestseller. The difference is in the two models of publishing is a whole separate podcast.

Finally – will I post my work? No, not at this stage. It looks too awful. That's normal but that doesn't mean you put it out in public. But down the road a bit, yes, I'll post some chunks so you can see how the rewrite goes.