Here are today’s stats on the Clockwork Century story, “Far-Fetched” — about an apprentice airship engineer named Huojin and his adventures aboard the Naamah Darling, now with Bonus! mayhem in the Shanghai Tunnels of Portland:

Project: “Far-Fetched”
Deadline: February 20, 2010
New Words Written: 649
Present Total Word Count: 1320



Things Accomplished in Fiction: Finished the beginning and set-up; let the adventuring begin.

Things Accomplished in Real Life: Day-job work in the morning; went to lunch with husband; cleaned the apartment (except the floors, oh well); spent most of the afternoon filling out EPIC publicity questionnaire from Penguin re: BLOODSHOT; wrote this wee little bit on the story.

Other: Going to the g0thbar tonight with Ellen and Elaine. Ergo, I need to go figure out what to wear…

Total Official Word Count of 2010: 13,457 words