December 17, 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: 3008 (not bad!)
Present Total Word Count: 35,702
Goal: 45,000 words (Yes. Must stop pretending.)





Fiction Things Accomplished: If I told you that Belle Boyd was manning (the equivalent of) a ball turret gun on a stolen Union warbird called the Valkyrie while Croggon Hainey thrashes a Yankee cruiser and two security detail dirigibles … would you, or would you not, TOTALLY THROW THE HORNS AND ADMIT THAT THIS ROCKS THE FUCK OUT???!!!

Real Life Things Accomplished: Less rocking out. Sent little brother Christmas present; made student loan payment; got hair cut (trimmed up, anyway); went to the bank to take care of things; went to the drug store to pick up a few travel items; splurged and got lunch at Subway.

Reason for Stopping: Need for packing, doing dishes, making bed, charging up all electronic items for holiday travel, etcetera. Will make another post explaining self in a few minutes.

Total Fiction Words Composed in 2008: 310,551

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