Another murder in Cloverdale

Sadly, on Thursday night May 28 Cloverdale was home to the second murder of the month, in of all places, a church parking lot.

The Westwinds Community Church is located on 176th Street, near 64th Avenue, across from the Millenium Park. A 22 year old man who was in the parking lot with friends was beaten by another group of young men and a 17 year old boy has been arrested.

The first murder happened at the Clova Inn during the rodeo weekend.

Cloverdale has a high rate of car theft and burglaries but a low crime rate for violent crimes. Twice in one month is a hard blow for this one time small town.

Shooting death at Clover Inn

On Cloverdale's biggest weekend of the year a shooter walked into the Clover Inn on Saturday night May 16 around 11pm and shot 2 men and then fled. One died and the second is currently in critical condition. Neither of the men who were shot knew each other and police are still investigating a motive and trying to find the killer.

This is big news for Cloverdale. Violent crimes do not usually happen here. It is more an area of car theft and burglaries.

The Clover Inn was mentioned in one of my previous blogs as home to a stripper bar and clientele of a rougher nature.

Writing a bad novel

November is National Novel Writing Month. This is a challenge to all writers is to write a 50,000 word novel before the end of the month. After thinking about it for a week, I decided I'm in.

After my first day (yesterday) I wrote about 2000 words. Today I've written another 500. Its a really bad start. The object is not to worry about how bad it is. Just keep writing until the goal of 50,000 words has been written. And then its edit time. Or garbage time. Or seeing as how these are computers, hit the delete button time.

My novel is something I've thought about for awhile. A husband and wife who solve murder mysteries. Kind of like Murder She Wrote, but a duet not a single. I was a big fan of Jessica Fletcher. I'm planning a series. Its just getting started that's the hard part.

Hmm, or maybe this has already been done. Anyone remember Hart to Hart?

I need to pick up the pace. Just over 47,000 words to go.....