April 14, 2009

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This morning was devoted to day-job work, and then after lunchtime I took a break to noodle around with my website’s new look. Feel free to visit. Click around. Tell me if you notice anything that isn’t working, or that looks bad.*

And here’s today’s progress on the battlefield adventure about a widowed nurse from a Confederate hospital aboard a west-bound train pulled by a Union war engine — now with military intrigue, steampunk Texas rangers, undead political separatists, murderous plots, bushwackers, bandits, sabotage, and epic scenes of mayhem:

Project: Dreadnought
New Words: 3146 (very nice)
Present Total Word Count: 10,268 words
Goal: 100,000 words



Observations: I’m having really good writing days lately. Maybe I do better with the day-job, which makes me parcel out my time better. I’ve heard a lot of people say that they write the most when they have the least free time — and I know I used to be one of those people (Lord knows I started/wrote much of Four and Twenty Blackbirds while working 3 jobs and in graduate school). I guess there’s still a vestige of the old habit there to be harnessed.

Things Accomplished in Real Life: Did copious day job work; washed all the towels in the apartment, for they were all dirty; wrote half a dozen checks to pay half a dozen bills; mailed off the aforementioned bills; changed the litterbox; resisted the impulse to take a nap.

Reason for Stopping: Must take a few minutes to do dishes/clean the kitchen before suppertime; then I need to get back to that other creative project/proposal upon which I continue to noodle.


* In my perfect world, I’d have oodles of money to pay a good designer to make me a kick-ass personalized steampunk page; but this is the real world, where that ain’t the case — and I must stick to themes that I, personally, can tweak into submission.

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