January 24, 2010

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Not a lot of writing happened this weekend, and I undid half what made it to the page — leaving me with a very small net word count. But such is life, and it’s been a good couple of days anyway.

On Friday night I went to the g0thbar with Elaine and Ellen; yesterday Aric and I did lunch and spent the afternoon with Chrissy and Jon; and today I did virtually nothing but lounge, clean house, and catch up on some of last week’s day-job work.*

In other news (WOCKA WOCKA) I’d like to thank Mary Ann Gwinn at the Seattle Times, for she has been very, very kind. She has also dubbed me the “high priestess of steampunk,” which is a little hilarious. Ah, the punny-riffic joys of having a common noun for a name :)

Anyway. Here are the recent 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: 575 (yargh.)
    Present Total Word Count: 1895



    Things Accomplished in Fiction: Made it to Chinatown.

    Things Accomplished in Real Life: See above.

    Other: “High Priestess of Steampunk.” I could totally put that on a business card.

    Total Official Word Count of 2010: 14,032 words


* Because I was dissatisfied with my progress, not because my boss is a meany who makes me work on weekends. Besides, I have a dentist’s appointment this week, and it’ll eat up one of my work-mornings.

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2 Responses to “January 24, 2010”

  1. Juergen
    January 25th, 2010 @ 2:44 am

    Did you read Unshelved recently? Cause you really should … they are plugging your book

    http://www.unshelved.com/2010-1-22

    :)

  2. Michael Davis
    January 26th, 2010 @ 11:40 pm

    “leaving me with a very small net word count”

    For some reason I suddenly have the image of a writer looking over the side of a boat into a net filled with words and counting her catch.

    Loved BONESHAKER!

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