I am so pumped-up right now.  Pumped like I’ve been chugging Powerthirst.

The book is awesome.  I want so badly to discuss my book with people or post parts of it, but that just ain’t going to happen.

Sorry.  Are you excited?  ARE YOU AS PUMPED AS I AM, YOU PITBULL WITH LIPSTICK?!

Anyways, I finished a self-contained section of my book two nights ago, and last night I started section two.

I will say this.  It is looking like my book is going to be somewhere in the 100,000 words range.  At the time of this post, my current word count is 13,981.  I started doing some research on word-counts earlier this week.  The best thing I could find was on the always-accurate Wikipedia: word counts and such.

So, according to the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, I am within the Novelette range (7,500 - 17,500).  Like I said, the first section is very self-contained, so if I really wanted to, I could try and get a Novelette published and be a novelette… um.. ist.

If you are really dying to know what the book is about, well… I still won’t tell.  But I will say this, if you want to think of it as if it were a movie, it would best be described as Requiem For A Dream meets Dumb and Dumber.

Right now, the tone has changed.  The next section is a bit more upbeat and silly than the first.  When I was writing section 1, I was jamming to Danny Elfman’s score for Red Dragon.  In starting the second section, I switched it up to Thomas Newman’s score to American Beauty - still a very eerie and ethereal sound, but a bit more quirky than Red Dragon.  Newman is a better fit for where I’m at right now.

And Jess, I took your advice on the Gladiator soundtrack.  I like it a lot, but it put me in the mood to chop people up.  Not a good fit for the book.  Better for work.

That’s it for now, vatos.  More obscure hints about the book later.

- David C. Garcia