December 13, 2008

Posted on | 3 years, 1 month ago, in the early evening | No Comments

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: 2084
Present Total Word Count: 27,108
Goal: 40,000 words





Fiction Things Accomplished: Maria has run into an old colleague, who she allows to draw some incorrect conclusions; Croggon’s engineer has infiltrated a prospective new aircraft that they will have to steal before they can fly.

Reason for Stopping: Tonight is a Christmas party at the Henry’s place, and the weather seems to be holding at “Cold as hell, but not at all wet” over here in my neck of the woods — so I suspect we’ll likely be attending. It’s a potluck event and I need to arrange for something to bring, and my apartment is a little bit trashed. I’d like to straighten up and freshen up before we get the crew together for the wee little caravan.

Total Fiction Words Composed in 2008: 301,957 (WOOT!)

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