As Oscar is doing the rounds....

"In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust."

Not what I was looking for (which was "There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.") but very appropriate....

Word Count

OK, a trifle overconfident, about the first day's word count, and chapter one comes in at 1,600 words, not 2,500. But I was bored with the fat bartender, and wanted to get onto the fight scene. Ah, how we artists suffer....

Will try to post tchapter one tomorrow morning.

This is so much easier than actually writing...

"Novelists have, on the average, about the same IQs as the cosmetic consultants at Bloomingdale's department store. Our power is patience. We have discovered that writing allows even a stupid person to seem halfway intelligent, if only that person will write the same thought over and over again, improving it just a little bit each time. It is a lot like inflating a blimp with a bicycle pump. Anybody can do it. All it takes is time." - Kurt Vonnegut