November 18, 2008

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Here’s today’s progress on my steampunk novella about a runaway-slave- turned-air-pirate and his lost Confederate war dirigible, a mysterious doomsday weapon, and a disenfranchised southern spy who’s gone to work for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency — now with Bonus! military intrigue and a gentle old scientist who’s slowly losing his mind:

Project: The Clementine
New Words Written Today: 2945 (not bad, especially for a foreshortened work day)
Present Total Word Count: 13,120
Goal: 40,000 words (adjusted; will likely be re-adjusted later.)





Fiction Things Accomplished: The captain and his crew have tried to call in an old favor, with mixed results; but they’ve got a good lead on where they might nab a new ship, by hook or by crook. They’ll probably pick “crook” since, well, let’s be honest — we’re dealing with a pirate, here.

Real Life Things Accomplished: Thus far, not much. I started my morning without doing my usual morning things (making bed, leaving pajamas, etc.) because I need to do laundry something awful, and I need to run to the drug store, and a few other things — and I wanted to get some writing done first. So that’s how it went down, and now I need to go tackle these errands; but I got a healthy word count under my belt, so I feel okay about it.

Reason for Stopping: See above.

Total Fiction Words Composed in 2008: 287,969

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