Okay, so it’s totally NOT going to happen.
Posted on | 1 year, 11 months ago, in the early evening | No Comments
If you’re here via BoingBoing, welcome aboard. Just keep your regional prejudices to yourself.* If you’re looking for my post on how to productively assist the folks in Southeast Texas, it’s right here and it’s been updated several times over the day with new links to food banks and blood banks.
Anyway. Yes. Moving right along, back to work.
As I mentioned last week, it has been my hypothetical goal to work up a rough draft of Bloodshot by the end of this month. As this entry title spells out, I now strongly doubt that this will occur. I’ve landed a really great editorial letter on Boneshaker and before long it’ll be time to work on Clementine — which is due this winter. But I don’t want to drop this project outright; I want to finish it, and if I have to finish it in drips and drabs rather than in big fat ambitious chunks, then that’s just how it’s going to go.
So here are today’s stats:
Project: Bloodshot
New Words Written Today: 2250 (not great but not bad, considering I didn’t get started until this afternoon)
Present Total Word Count: 40,476
Goal: 100,000 words
Fiction Things Accomplished: Had a very awkward conversation with grieving parents who have lost one child, and cast the other one out for reasons that will soon become clear; set up housekeeping in Atlanta for the time being, and reestablished a few old contacts now that the coast seems more or less clear. Whether or not this is a good idea will remain to be seen.
Real Life Things Accomplished: Washed lots of dishes; did some housework; went to Walgreens; did some research and posted some links that — I hope — will be useful to people back at my old stomping grounds; started wearing cool new shoes I picked up yesterday (adorable high-top Sailor Jerry Chucks, yes, you may muster some jealousy if you like).
Stumbling blocks: None so far except for time constraints. I continue to be pleased by how easy this one just … sorta … flows.
Reason for Stopping: I need to get off the couch and make myself presentable; a friend of mine has a birthday this weekend, and I want to nab her something to mark the occasion.
Total Fiction Words Composed in 2008: 264,792
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