Word Count (2 Apr)

I said I would do this and now…

Okay. Must shame myself into working. Must shame myself into working.

First, the details: Up Jumped the Devil is a literary historical novel set in the 1920's. One summer day, a mysterious, roaming revival preacher, The Soothsayer, shows up in the town of Rock Springs, Arkansas. The people he becomes familiar with are at once suspicious of the tight-lippedness of The Soothsayer about his past, and excited to have an interesting outsider among them. They talk him into doing things he doesn't feel comfortable doing until something that's meant for good is interpreted as evil and those who had been championing him are now out to exact revenge, if not justice.

Today's word count: 9,500.

I have to work on the next 10 pages for workshop class in a couple weeks and I'm still undecided on what I want to tackle first. An important character in the novel is a middle-aged black man who is a bootlegger and part-time juke joint bluesman. I have in mind a scene where he delivers a load of whiskey to a nearby speakeasy and stays to play a set with the "fellas" while the principal narrator of the novel, Samuel, watches from a partially closed door (since he's white, and a young boy at the time). I haven't settled on this one yet, but I know I'll have to tackle it sooner or later, so why not now?