I began actually writing the book today, with a 2,048 word session. I mixed what I had intended to write about the road trip with something I invented on the spot -- a girlfriend for Hap, named Meeghan. I modeled her on the girl I ran into last weekend, K., but K. is such a strange name that I made it a little more common. I also made her enamored of "the angle" of fucking Hap energetically on top. I got all the way to the opening of the section set in the strip club in Bend.

I think the writing's a little flat but on the other hand I didn't really get bogged down. I'll have to do a little more reading every day; I'm taking the Miller with me.

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