December 12, 2008

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Tonight, at the University District bookstore in Seattle, I’ll be reading/signing with the lovely and talented Caitlin Kittredge at 7:00 p.m. All locals are most vigorously invited to attend.

In other news, between surprise out-of-towners, sudden new apartments, signings, Christmas events, and my upcoming trip to Florida … I’m doing my damndest to keep my writing momentum up, and not succeeding to the fullest extent of my abilities. It’s just that all these distractions are so much fun and sometimes writing is not. (Or at least, writing looks like work in comparison to tootling around town with friends and going to holiday parties.) But in my defense, I’m maintaining a bare minimum of a thousand words a day, and generally doing better than that.

So here’s the recent 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: 4781 (over the last couple of days)
Present Total Word Count: 25,024
Goal: 40,000 words





Fiction Things Accomplished: Our fearsome air pirate learns that he’s being chased and is none too pleased to hear of it; his chaser has to hop an open-air, two-seater flying apparatus from Jefferson City to Kansas City, which leaves our steel magnolia bloody well freezing to death and in something of a terrible temper.

Reason for Stopping: Even though I’ve only done about 2000 words today, I’m dead tired and sort of feeling strung out. I’d like to take an hour or two to unwind or freshen up before meeting up with Team Seattle (at least, those of us who are presently in town and available) for Indian food in Fremont; and then, of course, we must dash off to the U-district for this signing. I should probably, like, I don’t know. Brush my teeth or something.

Total Fiction Words Composed in 2008: 299,873 (SO CLOSE.)

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