April 26, 2008

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Ah, productive days. Already on this fine Saturday I’ve finished reading the second of two books I need to review by Tuesday, gotten lunch with the husband, and trotted over to Fremont Coffee where I am presently sitting in a window — waiting for the aforementioned husband to finish noodling with the coffee roasting equipment in this store’s basement. And oh yes. Did I mention? I also broke 100,000 words on The Boneshaker.

Ordinarily I’m pleased with myself if I manage 500 words per day over the weekends; but now that I’m in what could tentatively be described as the home stretch, things just come so much faster … even when I’m hypothetically taking a breather.

Here’s today’s progress on the west coast steampunk Victoriana book with zombies, air ships, toxic gas clouds, mad scientists, dead folk heroes, secret criminal societies, and Bonus! extended deleted scenes from the Civil War:

Project: The Boneshaker
New Words: 2055
Present Total Word Count: 101,550 words
Goal: 130,000 words by July 1st.





Things Accomplished in Fiction: Learned much from an elderly cross-dressing Native American princess who can’t read minds, but who reads people quite well; arranged for passage out of the city; climbed like, 20 flights of stairs in the dark.

Other Observations: I still think I’ve got maybe 25,000-30,000 words to go, give or take. I don’t know. There’s much to wrap up, some of it on Zeke’s end and some of it on Briar’s end. I don’t want Draft Zero of this to be too overwhelmingly huge (for my own sanity’s sake, and the sake of my poor editor), but I want it to include all the important bits, of course. I do tend to overwrite, but this is starting to feel like the draft that never ends. It just goes on and on my friends. Somebody started writing it and didn’t know what it was, and now we’ll keep on writing it forever just because it is the draft that never ends. It just goes on and on my friends…

Things Accomplished in Real Life: See first paragraph.

Reason for Stopping: I’m getting restless here in the coffeeshop. Perhaps I’ll wander downstairs and see what the husband is doing. Maybe it’s interesting. Later on today, I think I’m going to wander over to the Lake View Cemetery* and poke around, since it’s so pretty outside and everything.

Total Fiction Words Composed in 2008: 170,125

And now, just because there are people out there who are actually curious about this sort of thing — I thought it might be fun, or at least idly informative, to post my “Boneshaker Mix.” This isn’t strictly what I work to, but when I feel like I’m getting off-track or “out of the mood” for writing, these are the songs that remind me what I’m trying to do.

Boneshaker Mix:

“I’m So Sick” (T-virus remix feat. Legion of Doom) — Flyleaf
“Momma Sed” — Puscifer
“This is Not America” — David Bowie
“Beware” — The Afghan Whigs
“Help Me I Am In Hell” — NIN
“The Lords of Salem” — Rob Zombie
“Falling Up” (Egypt remix) — Collide
“Spiders Bride” — The Machine in the Garden
“Haunted” — Gary Numan
“Long Walk” — I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness
“Army of Me” — Bjork
“Severance” (Live from Gotham) — Bauhaus
“Rain” — The Cult
“Man Next Door” — Massive Attack
“History Repeats Itself” — AOS
“This Corrosion” — Sisters of Mercy
“Gimme Shelter” — Sisters of Mercy
“Probably Will” — Concrete Blonde
“Swing the Heartache” — Bauhaus
“Optimissed” — Skinny Puppy
“Here” — Vast
“Deep” (Christ Analogue remix) — Collide
“Good Things” — Edera


* The cemetery down the road from me where all the city’s old pioneers were posthumously relocated in order to make way for development. I’ve got a little guide book to it and everything.

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Comments

4 Responses to “April 26, 2008”

  1. Warren Ellis
    April 26th, 2008 @ 7:16 pm

    A BONESHAKER muxtape may be called for.

  2. Cherie
    April 28th, 2008 @ 8:07 pm

    Ooh … neat. Sorry — the comment got caught by my spam folder (the link in it, I suppose); but that looks nifty. I’ll look into it.

  3. Buffy
    May 2nd, 2008 @ 7:23 pm

    Love the playlist…

  4. Cherie
    May 2nd, 2008 @ 7:28 pm

    Thanks – it’s working for me so far :)

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