August 12, 2008

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I give you … word metrics. I’ve finished Draft Zero of “Tanglefoot” and it’s far longer than anticipated (no big surprise for me, really); tomorrow I’ll whittle it down and tighten it up, then I’ll pass it along to an interested party for editorial assessment.

Project: “Tanglefoot”
New Words: 7773 (across 3 days)
Present Total Word Count: 11,171
Goal: 7000 words (guestimation FAIL)





Fiction Things Accomplished: Completed Draft Zero for my story about a senile scientist and his orphan apprentice. It certainly took a dark and terrible turn somewhere in the middle — which is good, I think. I’ll try and even it out a bit when I tackle it tomorrow for revisions.

Real Life Things Accomplished: Mailed off some bills; exchanged many emails; made plans with Caitlin for movies and goofing off tomorrow night; ate a pot of Mac ‘N Cheese which isn’t quite agreeing with me; contemplated going thrifting and restrained myself because I had lots of work to do.

Stumbling blocks: This isn’t so much a “stumbling block” as food for thought — but last night I was chatting with Aric and it dawned on me that “the BONESHAKER universe” is sort of a mouthful and it’s altogether inadequate. If I intend to write more and disparate stories set in this weird little alternate history morass, I really need a label that will umbrella the whole batch of it — Boneshaker, Clementine, short stories like “Tanglefoot,” and anything else I might try to compose with this setting as a backdrop. Brainstorming occurred. Ideas were bounced off esteemed colleagues. And now I think I’ve got something cool, and I’m trying to write a 200-300 word abstract for it. I’ll provide details later, if I decide that it doesn’t suck.

Reason for Stopping: Finished the draft. Also, I want to drag out the vacuum and give the apartment a quick run-down before husband gets home from work. Cat has dumped kibble all over the kitchen, and the crumbs from eating at my desk have achieved a downright embarrassing state.

Total Fiction Words Composed in 2008: 257,413

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