Day 6: 11,009 Words

I’ve entered quintuple digits, which also means I’ve more than doubled my original word count (remember, I started this project with about 8000 words written plus a couple thousand more in notes and random scenes).  It’s hard!  Anyway, I decided that Mondays are good days for excerpts, so here’s Mark’s dad:

Also, I don’t think she like’s Mark’s dad.  We used to talk about how weird it would be if they ever got together, since she’s a single mom and he’s a single dad, and at least they go to the same church and have the same moral ideas and everything.  But she really is not into him.  I guess I can’t really blame her.  From my perspective he’s alright, he’d make an okay stepdad.  He still makes Mark his lunch for school and the two of them are like best friends.  He’s a software engineer or something, he makes descent money.  But he is all skinny and a bit funny looking – his hair is just a little too long, not like he’s a hippie, but it hangs in his eyes like he forgot to cut it when he was due a couple months ago, and he’s got these big glasses that make him look like an owl.  He doesn’t dress very well – he wears these weirdly thick canvas shirts that he tucks into his too-tight pants that kinda show his junk, which you really do not want to see in an old guy.

Today’s Word Count:  2760

Total Project Word Count:  11,009