What? It could happen. You never know.
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Until today I hadn’t really written anything since last month’s short “Tanglefoot,” and today was the day to rectify that. At the moment, I’m waiting for word on half a dozen projects here and there, so I’ve gone back to work on my trashy adventure about a neurotic vampire/thief and her wealthy blind client, now with Bonus! half-Cuban drag queen and military intrigue.
This one’s been a tricky project for me. Even when I seem to be doing it right, it’s just so far off my usual wavelength that I’m having a hard time plugging into it with sufficient consistency. But I had a very nice chat with a very nice Tor editor over DragonCon, and I am once again freshly inspired to continue.
It is my hypothetical goal to work up a rough draft of Bloodshot by the end of this month, at which point I’ll shift gears and begin working on The Clementine — which is due this winter. What? I can totally do it. You just watch me. [:: cough cough ::]
So here are today’s stats, picking up where I most recently left off:
Project: Bloodshot
New Words Written Today: 5039*
Present Total Word Count: 38,226
Goal: 100,000 words
Fiction Things Accomplished: Let self into a highly classified military storage facility; found useful scraps of information; headed to Atlanta chasing a clue thread; cornered a sad middle-aged couple about their missing daughter; learned she had a brother, who will undoubtedly require closer inspection.
Real Life Things Accomplished: Made meatloaf according to my stepmother’s recipe; did an unbelievable amount of dishes; went to bank and deposited some money, yay; restrained self from shopping all up and down Broadway; caught up on some reading, including more than half of a novel that must be reviewed by next week; discovered that husband was taking me to see Sisters of Mercy in Portland (they’re also playing in Seattle but he likes the Portland venue better and he’s buying, so he gets to pick).
Stumbling blocks: I keep picking up this project and putting it back down again, due to circumstance and the interruption of other (not to put too fine a point on it, but paying) projects. This makes it hard to focus; every time I resume work on it, I have to go back to the start and re-read everything that came previously, in order to keep my continuity in line. Although this project isn’t up my usual alley, I’ve developed some real fondness for it and I need to get off my ass and wrap it up.
Reason for Stopping: I have a few more things to do around the house before the husband gets home from work, and once I crested that 5K number, I felt like I could retreat to other duties without guilt.
Total Fiction Words Composed in 2008: 262,542
* I wrote a little bit of this previously, but it didn’t seem like wordcount enough to bother posting.
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