December 29, 2008
Posted on | 3 years, 1 month ago, in the early evening | 11 Comments
I know I’ve been scarce since my return from Florida, but I have a most excellent excuse. Behold — here’s the final Draft Zero 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: 5486 (BOO-YAH)
New Words Written Since Last Report: 24,371
Present Total Word Count: 57,065
Goal: Well and truly exceeded on all points.
Fiction Things Accomplished: All of them. And a super-brief epilogue. (It’s the text of a telegram sent to Allan Pinkerton.)
Real Life Things Accomplished: Nibbled on cheese and crackers and holiday cookies all day. Eschewed the internet. Tore through the final chapters to achieve Draft Zero, which tickles me pink.
What’s Next: Next, I’m going to let it sit for 24 hours — then cut it down to a Draft One that I can pass on to Schafer. Ideally, I’d like to reduce the word count on this one by at least 5000 words (as I think some of the earlier sections are unnecessarily fluffed, and bits ought to be excised); and I’ll deliver this first solid draft on New Year’s Day.
Reason for Stopping: Excessive squee and general need to get away from my laptop.
Total Fiction Words Composed in 2008: 331,914 — Which will likely be my year-end total. It’s a respectable figure, if somewhat short of what I’d hoped. Still, I count myself a fairly happy camper. This is absolutely the most I’ve ever written in any given year of my life, and I’m frankly rather proud of myself.
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December 29th, 2008 @ 6:18 pm
Congrats; that’s quite a word count.
December 29th, 2008 @ 6:19 pm
Thanks!
[:: high fives ::]
December 29th, 2008 @ 6:21 pm
Whaddya say, 500,000 for 2009? Eh?
December 29th, 2008 @ 6:22 pm
I’m going to stab for an average of 1000 a day, so 365,000 for the year. I don’t think this goal is altogether unreasonable.
December 29th, 2008 @ 6:23 pm
Not at all! You practically did so this year! And if you pardon my language, 2008 has been a motherfucker for just about everyone I know. If yours has been a similar “challenge”, it’s amazing you got as high a word count as you did!
December 29th, 2008 @ 6:35 pm
I am so excited about this.
December 29th, 2008 @ 7:02 pm
Woohoooo! Congrats!
December 29th, 2008 @ 9:25 pm
Cherie, congratulations! That is a very impressive yearly word count. And congrats, too, on finishing Draft Zero. My husband would say that that calls for a martini with two olives — please do celebrate with the libation of your choice, and add double the trimmings!
December 29th, 2008 @ 10:06 pm
LEVEL!
Err. I mean. Um. Congratulations! :D
December 29th, 2008 @ 11:19 pm
Hi!
Just finishing Fathom. Very very weird. Bloody brilliant. I appreciated the De Lint comment – Fathom is odd in the way some of his best are.
January 3rd, 2009 @ 3:35 am
[...] It’s a new year, and I wanted to restart an old tradition of post semi-regular progress reports on my various novels and projects. Format stolen from a bunch of places. [...]