Under a Gibbous Moon

It completely slipped past me but the 23rd was one month since I set up Under A Gibbous Moon. Here I am, just over one month, 58 posts and a handful of readers later, time just seems to fly by, particularly with NaNoWriMo. Here’s to an even better next month.

I was recently watch A New Hope. When Obi-Wan Kenobi is taking Luke to Mos Eisley, he comments that no one will find, “a more wretched hive of scum and villainy”. Other than being a strange motto for the local chamber of commerce, it got me thinking. Why would the Empire tolerate such a place.

Given that the empire is evil and demonstrates little care for personal freedom, due process or anything but monochromatic uniforms, it struck me as odd that there should much, if any type of crime in the Galaxy. Continue reading “On the economics of Star Wars” »

Well the novel is finished. At least it is finished in the sense that I have reached “The End” (and no, I did not actually write that). Unfortunately I am at 44,778 words.

What this means is that I now have some serious padding to do. I mean editing, yes editing I like the sound of that better. As long as I can “edit” another 350 words or so into each scene I should be home free. And with a mere 5 days left to write. So much for sleeping.

A judge in Tennessee has recently blocked blocked a new law that would allow CCW permit holders to carry their firearms into establishments that served alcohol as long as it received more than half of its profits from food sales.

The judge agreed with the suing parties on the grounds that the law was ambiguous. To a certain extent, I would agree since it could be difficult looking at a place as to whether or not they met the required amount of food sales (though this is done in other states)

What I find humorous is what Randy Rayburn who led the charge against this law said:

We will have vigilantes shooting up bars all over.

Now according to Mr. Webster the definition of a vigilante is:

A member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate); broadly : a self-appointed doer of justice

So apparently, Mr. Rayburn is afraid of self-appointed do-gooders invading his cafes and scaring off all of his criminal clientele.

Of course instead of feeding the lawyers he could have just put up a sign on the door that said no firearms allowed. It still is private property after all.

I’ve put in a huge push on my novel in the last two days. I had fallen far behind to to my accident. In the last 48 hours I’ve written 7,824 words more words. This brings me to a grand total of 43,037 words. I have less than 7K words left until I reach the 50K word mark.

This would not be a problem except that I have exactly ONE (1) chapter left to write. Not only is it just one measly chapter but it is only one scene. It is the epilogue. Now the prologue for the novel clocked it at just slightly over 1K words so I don’t think that there is any way to stretch this out to 7K. I would say at best I might get 2K words out of it leaving me with a finished novel somewhere around 45K words.

At that point I’m going to have to figure out what I’m going to do next. Do I go back an add in additional scenes? Expand upon what I have already written?

At the very least, I will finish the epilogue tomorrow which will leave me with at least 5 days to figure it out. I feel at least moderately confident that I will be able to scrape together something.