February 12, 2008

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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: 3948 (much better, yes)
Present Total Word Count: 13,228 words
Goal: 100,000 words by July 1.




Things Accomplished in Fiction: Introduced my favorite character of the book. He’s easy to write about, bless him, and getting in tune with him again is really revving up my interest/engagement in this story. In case I haven’t said as much already, there exists a very old draft of this story already — and although the whole thing needs to be greatly, extensively rewritten, about 2/3 of the structure is pretty solid. Therefore, I’m already pretty familiar with the characters and the general blueprints of the tale. So let me put it this way: if this book were a house, it would need major structural remodeling, but I wouldn’t have to tear the whole thing down and start over.

Other Things Accomplished in Real Life: Finished combing through another round of Fathom edits.

Reason for Stopping: Exhaustion. Hunger. It’s coming up on 5:00, and I try to keep regular work hours; though it’s true that I often get more work done later on in the evening after suppertime.

Total Fiction Words Composed in 2008: 73,990

Category: misc

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