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Writing-wise I could have had a better month. It fell off the cliff with the flu that struck me down July 6 and remained as a powerful and painful cough through the 21st. In addition to the days spent at home sweating and coughing the illness robbed me of all opportunity and motivation to sit at the keyboard and keep working on this strange non-outlined werewolf novel.

Then once the flue had departed and the cough subsided to a mere annoyance, dental issues raised their troublesome head. Some of these had started in June, a need to remove a bridge, extract a tooth and cap another one had at first seemed fairly straight forward. However, the temporary crown kept falling off, making eating a challenge, and when it came time to affix the permanent crown, that failed a new crown needed to be fashioned, setting me back two more weeks. That would have been trouble enough but new jaw/tooth pain on the other side of the mouth caused additional worries and examinations which luckily concluded yesterday with a clean prognosis.

All in all, July saw little progress on the novel with the working title The Wolves of Wallace Point but there was some.

The manuscript currently stands at 32,000 words of a projected 90,000. The second act is about to close with the showdown between a gang of neo-Nazi bikers and the pack of werewolves that lord over this small, isolated Idaho mountain town.