Sunday Sunday Sunday

Posted on | 2 years, 9 months ago, in the evening | No Comments

It was a good weekend, chock full of thrifting with Ellen and Psynde; then shopping and Wolverine with the husband and Caitlin (who summed up Wolverine as, “Bros before hos,” which sounds about right to me). It was a perfectly serviceable popcorn flick. Not the best thing I ever spent 90 minutes doing, but not the worst, either. I mean, let’s be honest: It couldn’t have sucked any harder than X3 if it’d been hitched to a Dyson. And the less said about Vanhelsing the better.*

Anyway. Here’s weekend 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: 4085 (not bad)
Present Total Word Count: 25,206 words
Goal: 100,000 words



Things Accomplished in Fiction: Landed a crippled passenger dirigible behind Confederate lines (which was good, at least for the people in the dirigible); badly maimed an ex-sailor’s hand; dragged a battle-line way too close for comfort; evacuated to Chattanooga.

Things Accomplished in Real Life: Finally got around to doing laundry; did some research; went to the pet store; nuked the fish tank — which is to say, gave it all new gravel, plants, water … everything (in an attempt to defeat some yellow-brown mank that’s been repeatedly creeping up lately).

Reason for Stopping: Now I need to get to work on another creative project — the last thing about which I am not allowed to talk (at least, for now; that will probably change before long). But I need to get some ideas/thoughts/plot points down on paper. Or rather, down on index cards. These things are probably going to get shuffled all over the place.


* Except for that-there review I just linked.

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