If you’ve been to my website today, you may have noticed a new "Novel Progress" word count meter. It currently reads 11,267/100,000. That number is significant, because it means this novel, Unforgettable, is now the second-longest work of fiction I’ve written, after Heir of the Line. (It will never become the longest, because there is no way it will reach 150,000 words.)
I actually started this novel accidentally on January 1, just doing some free writing. Until last week, though, I had only written less than 3000 words. Over the last week, I’ve averaged better than 1000 words a day. My goal is to finish the first draft by August 7.
Here’s the first line of the novel:
I straightened the tie I’d stolen from Macy’s that morning and stepped into the interviewer’s office.