May 27, 2009

Posted on | 2 years, 8 months ago, in the early evening | 1 Comment

More word metrics, in yo FACE!

Here’s today’s progress on the alternate-history 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: 3193 (pretty good!)
Present Total Word Count: 53,430 words
Goal: 120,000 words (revised goal)



Things Accomplished in Fiction: Got Mercy aboard a Texian steamer and made herself at home; learned much about Texians and their politics. The trip to St. Louis (from Memphis) would be a little long in real-world time, but it won’t run more than a chapter in book-time.

Things Accomplished in Real Life: Day-job reading; a little bit of grocery shopping; not much else.

Other: In case anyone cares or is interested, there’s a full-length interview up at Cult-Pop — conducted with yours truly by Jim Hall, who is inimitably awesome. We talked about books, and alternate history, and Daniel Boone, and a bunch of other stuff, too. I definitely had a good time chatting with Jim (as per always, both on-camera and off) and I totally appreciate his time and enthusiasm.

Reason for Stopping: Same as yesterday. Also, I have made it ALL DAY NOW without playing Plants vs. Zombies (which, as you know if you follow me on Twitter, I purchased last night). And frankly, I think I deserve a little pea-shooter-on-zombie mayhem. Yes, I do.

Category: misc

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One Response to “May 27, 2009”

  1. Michael
    May 28th, 2009 @ 5:06 pm

    Yay for Zombie mayhem! The Cult Pop episode turned out nicely. A shame we couldn’t have some of the abandoned building/exploration conversation from the night before on the show.

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