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Howdy do, people? It’s that time again: WIPpet Wednesday! It’s been a good week. I got the final edits back on my novel, made the changes, and sent it back. Now the fun begins…just a little over two months til it’s officially out!

On to other things. Here’s my ROW80 update:

• Write 1 hr/day in Passing on Faith: Nope. But I have a good excuse. I was busy writing a short story and making the changes to my upcoming novel. My goals will be waylaid another week because I’m going out of town for the holiday weekend. Hopefully, once the school year starts, I’ll be back to finishing this thing.
• Read 30 min/day: √ Always. I finished two books since last Friday and I’ve started another one.
• Write at least 1 blog post/week other than ROW80/WIPpet: √ Two this week! A book review and my short story.

And here’s my WIPpet:

This is the last segment I’m posting in this section of Passing on Faith. I think we get the idea that 1. Micah is having issues and 2. Cat’s annoying but nice. Time to move on. But this is a bit more of their conversation from last week’s WIPpet. Next time, I’m moving on to a new plot point.

You get 2 + 7 = 9 short dialog paragraphs.

“My father was…” This was the part he’d always hated explaining. It typically produced one of two reactions: shock and dismay or shock and enthusiasm. He didn’t care for either response. He grunted. Might as well get it over with. “My father was a minister.”

“Uh…oh,” Cat said. “Okay.”

That hadn’t been what Micah was expecting. “Yeah. And he sort of owned three houses. Well, two of them belonged to the church, technically, but he more or less owned that, too.”

Cat paused in his scrubbing. “Let me guess. He left the other houses to the church and you got this?”

“Sort of,” Micah agreed. “More like, my brothers are living in the other two and I got this.”

At that, Cat’s eyebrows shot up. “That’s…interesting,” he said.

Micah rolled his eyes. “You can say it—that sucks. I was never Pop’s favorite son.”

“Why not?” Cat turned his back to Micah and started in on the stove top.

“That’s an even longer story.” He huffed. “Let’s just say Pop had more traditional beliefs.”

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I’m sorry that my post will be a bit short today. It’s my daughter’s birthday, so I’m off to celebrate with her by going to Build-a-Bear and the zoo. A few quick updates:

ROW80

• Write 1 hr/day in Passing on Faith: √ Sort of. Some days it’s a bit less, some more, but it’s averaging out.
• Read 30 min/day: √ Still keeping up. I’ve read several good books in the last few weeks!
• Write 1 post/week other than ROW80/WIPpet: √ Yup, just posted it.

WIPpet:

Here’s the end of the scene I’ve been posting the last couple of weeks. I’m too busy to move on to another section of the book this week. Hopefully, next week I’ll be able to let you see something further on in the story. No complicated math today; thirteen sentences for the thirteenth.

Cat smiled, but there was something behind it—something Micah could only identify as wistful, but that didn’t make any sense. He extracted himself from that thought and stood up.

“I should probably start working on something in here,” he said.

Rising from the chair, Cat said, “I’ll leave you to it—I have another job, so I need to go change. You’ll let me know if you need anything in the meantime?”

“Sure. Yeah.”

They moved into the hallway, and for whatever reason, Micah was reluctant to see Cat leave. Cat seemed to pick up on the hesitation because he smirked and offered the same almost-twitch of his hips Micah had seen the previous day. It made Micah laugh.

“I promise, I’ll be around,” Cat said. He ginned and ducked out the door.

Micah followed him out, standing on the porch to watch him go and wondering when he might see him again.

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