Today’s stats for the noir fable with warring factions, score-keeping ghosts, supernatural animal testing on an industrial scale, survivors with grudges, a mysterious ex-clergyman who lies exquisitely, and a vampire who wakes up cranky from his 100-year nap:
Project: Awake Into Darkness
New Year’s Resolution Status: Sound.
New Words Written Since Yesterday: 1788
Present Total Word Count: 9280 words
Goal: 100,000 words by July 1.
Things Accomplished in Fiction: Filled in the mechanics of my monsters via tragic info-dump. Mother of dead dude spills all to the survivor in an attempt to allay her fears (there’s method to that madness, trust me) — but instead, the survivor gets some nasty ideas.
Things Accomplished in Real Life: Wrote introduction for story that’s going into Son of Retro Pulp; did more noodling with line edits on Fathom (which ate up most of my writing day, as it shall continue to do for probably the rest of the week, if not longer); read half of a book I need to review for a magazine; accomplished laundry, which is good because I was out of socks and undies; and walked down to the post office to mail some things and check the P.O. box.*
Reason for Stopping: Hunger. Also, end of a chapter. Good stopping point. Note to self: someone asked me the other day to talk more about how the editorial process works from my end, and I’ll try to answer that in a post sometime tomorrow or the next day, maybe; but this is turning out to be a busy week, and I’m about to have a week’s worth of construction going on in here, starting Wednesday.
Total Fiction Words Composed in 2008: 70,042
* I count this as an accomplishment because it’s down a very steep hill quite some ways away, and the round trip is downright grueling.
