Much better!

Posted on | 2 years, 7 months ago, in the late afternoon | 1 Comment

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: 4165 (RAR!)
Present Total Word Count: 89,237 words
Goal: 120,000 words



Things Accomplished in Fiction: STUFF. Also mayhem and wackiness, with side orders of violence, injury, and death.

Things Accomplished in Real Life: Started a new day-job project and worked my way through about a third of it; did some dishes; gathered laundry but have not yet found the washers/dryers free so I haven’t yet actually done laundry; exchanged a few important writer-business emails; bemoaned my lack of clean clothes.

Other: In case anyone out there wonders why I’m on such a death march with this book, let me put it this way — Dreadnought is due August 1. My contribution to Fort Freak is due in the middle of October. Then Bloodshot is due at Bantam in the middle of December. It’s a busy schedule, and it’s a doable schedule … but it’s only doable if I keep myself focused and consistently productive.

Other, Part Deux: I’m reasonably certain that Dreadnought is going to wind up closer to 140,000 words. At least. But I refuse to change my word meter yet because I don’t wanna.

Reason for Stopping: I reached the end of chapter 15, and now I need to go run a couple of errands before settling in for laundry and supper-making.

Category: misc

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One Response to “Much better!”

  1. Cyndy Otty
    June 23rd, 2009 @ 7:41 pm

    I always seem to have the lack of free washers/dryers issue when I’ve procrastinated way more than should be allowed with doing laundry. It’s like the entire apartment building runs on the same schedule of lazy or something. I’ve contimplated solving this particular issue with just buying more clothes, but somehow I don’t think that’d really solve much.

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