Tuesday, November 3rd

"Out!"

It feels so great to be out of LA and traveling again - seeing the rest (and best!) of California. I'm not even that troubled that I've fallen shamefully behind my word quota. I'm going to lock myself in my sister's apartment in Santa Cruz Thursday and make up for lost time.

Wrote about 600 new words in Santa Barbara today - met a fellow novel writer Teri at a cafe and finished chapter one - ended on a wonderful, ominous note as the characters cross into the wasteland under growing worry that the alien technology is influencing their minds. I've more or less decided that in chapter 2 we'll go five days back in time to the village and see how this all started, and introduce various sexual tensions...

Staying tonight in Los Osos with Vanessa, outside of San Luis Obispo.

Tomorrow, Big Sur!


Total word count: 4182