Lest you folks think I’ve completely forgotten about this project — 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: 3184 (in a week - terrible)
Present Total Word Count: 6090
Things Accomplished in Fiction: Wrote my way to the climax; quit composing in the middle of it (just for tonight).
Things Accomplished in Real Life: Today? Lunch with a friend; day-job work; errands; a very short and accidental nap.
Other: I failed at my “write every day” resolution, which sucks — but all I can do is strive to pick up where I left off and keep composing. The dental work, of all things, really threw me off. It left me with a (total) 3-day headache wherein I felt frankly ill and just didn’t want to do a damn thing but lie around in the dark and eat pudding or drink. But I’ll probably finish the story in one more sitting, giving me a few days to edit it up nicely before it’s due.
Other, redux: But that probably won’t be tomorrow. I’ll be out of town most of the day. Tonight, I have something else I want to noodle with. I’m on schedule. I can afford to noodle. And, um, watch a little TV.
Total Official Word Count of 2010: 18,227 words
February 4th, 2010 at 2:52 am
That´s just a phase, you´ll get through all this in no time. By the way, the topic say “January 3, 2010″ ;-)
February 4th, 2010 at 5:08 am
Uh, sweetie, it’s February. . . .
February 4th, 2010 at 5:10 pm
Believe me, it wasn´t ^.^