Novel Stats

Uncanny

Today's Word Count: 870 Words, 17.6k total

The Good:
Ed imagined himself getting on the train, leaving the station in Nevada, taking the bus to the hospital, and resuming his watch next to Martha’s bed. He would have nothing to give now, but everything to lose: the sharpness in Martha’s eyes, her pale face thinning into shadow, her frail body evaporating under the sheets. There were some men, Ed thought, who could stand by and watch that happen.
But he could not.

Daily Stumbling Block:
I'm stumbling now with the simple things, prose and sentence structure. Seems all of my sentences want to begin with "He" or "the". I guess I'll roll with it for now...

Random Thought:
Every so often, I'm going to present a Richard Dawkins quote for us all to digest. Dawkins is probably the most vitriolic critic of religion and specifically Christianity, doggedly non-intellectual ideas to a man of such intellectual prowess, I presume. I think his quotes are very interesting, and tend to raise more questions, perhaps more appropriate than the ones he is attempting to answer. So, without further adue, your annual or monthly or bi-weekly Dawkins quote (I haven't decided the frequency at which they'll occur. I suppose it depends on what frequency he chooses to serve up these juicy quotes):

"It is almost as if the human brain were specifically designed to misunderstand Darwinism, and to find it hard to believe.."

From his own website. All I can say is, hmm...