Gauthic Times #56 News & Other Stuff from Bill Gauthier, or Things Are Tough All Around

Hello, friends! I’m sitting here on Saturday night, nice and full from a delicious roast chicken dinner Pamela made. G is running around, playing her own musical à la Hamilton. We’ll probably do a family video game shortly and I’ll take a break from writing this.

I’m writing this to remind myself of the good things, because inside I’m not really feeling this positive. Things have been real tough at work. Teaching is hard anyway and right now, in this time period we find ourselves in, it’s even harder. What I’m teaching and the expectations make it even more difficult. Right now I’m in a stressful period. I’d hoped that it wouldn’t be right now, but things did not work out the way I’d hoped. Not by a longshot. So I’m stressed out.

Add to that the desire, the goal of writing and making a career out of this, and we’re even more stressed. Today (Saturday) I spent the day in a lazy mode, napping and just hanging out, reading, that kind of thing. Tomorrow (Sunday) I may do the same thing. We’ll see.

Anyway, let’s move on with the update.

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I added about 4,000 words to Project: Amusement Park this week. The overall word count right now is almost 163,300 words, or 589 pages.

This week was tough because of the aforementioned stress. I was very tired after getting my permanent students for the year on Wednesday and had trouble writing for long most nights. Strangely, Thursday was my best night with nearly 1,000 words added.

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I finished Don Winslow’s City in Ruins, which I got through NetGalley. A really good crime saga. In some ways, I expected more to happen but the story didn’t need it. The emotional core was full and epic. I’m so happy I got it as in advance to its April publication.

Now I’ve started Christopher Golden’s The House of Last Resort. I’m not far into it but so far it’s typical Golden goodness.

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Pamela and I finished Griselda on Netflix, which was entertaining but fell short for me. I’d hoped for a little more from it and it never really materialized. It wasn’t bad, not by any means, just not as good as I’d hoped. Sofia Vergara is really good.

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I think that’s all for today. I’m still pretty tired and it’s after 8 PM now (we played our family video game…I lost…again). I have a novel to write.

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