June 30, 2009
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, bushwhackers, bandits, sabotage, and epic scenes of mayhem:
Project: Dreadnought
New Words: 3967 (pretty good!)
Present Total Word Count: [...]
June 29, 2009
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, bushwhackers, bandits, sabotage, and epic scenes of mayhem:
Project: Dreadnought
New Words: 3592 (not bad)
Present Total Word Count: [...]
Things I learned today
If you and your friend have become separated in a crowded venue, and you see that she is standing on tip-toe, searching for you, and her name happens to be “Bear” … then it is inadvertently hilarious to wave and shout, “Bear!” because people will duck and cover, man.
Also, it turns out that Seattle has [...]
June 26, 2009
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, bushwhackers, bandits, sabotage, and epic scenes of mayhem:
Project: Dreadnought
New Words: 1641 (removed some content; but still, [...]
In passing
I am sad for this boy — the dancing kid with the huge voice and the amazing moves. I am sorry about the childhood he seems to have missed, and the defective wreck of an adult he eventually became.
But damn, he could dance.
And damn, he could sing.
Ah, well.