April 15, 2009

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I haven’t made a huge amount of progress on DREADNOUGHT today, due to the critical need for groceries that ate up two hours in the middle of my work time. But such is life. And now I have food, so I shall not starve.

So 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: 1087 (not great)
Present Total Word Count: 11,355 words
Goal: 100,000 words



Observations: Writing a telegram is peculiarly difficult. At least, writing a fictional telegram that is both brief and informative sure as heck is. I spent longer composing that bad-boy than the rest of the text put together. Oh well. It’s important, and it needs to be right.

Things Accomplished in Real Life: Did copious day job work; went grocery shopping; cleaned kitchen; prepared for laundry (which I’ll begin in a minute).

Reason for Stopping: I’m a smidge pressed for time re: the other creative project upon which I am presently noodling — and I feel the need to wrap up my revised proposal for it sooner, rather than later. So I’m going to try to take the rest of the afternoon (working around the laundry) to wrap it up.

Category: misc

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