March 23, 2010

Posted on | 1 year, 10 months ago, in the late evening | 2 Comments

Here’s today’s progress on the new steam-horror fin de siecle project about ghosts, guilt, elder gods, and monster-hunting in the aftermath of two gruesome murders:

    Project: (tentative title) Maplecroft
    Deadline: None
    New words written: 683 (meh)
    Present total word count: 2520 words

    Things accomplished in fiction: Continued gettin’ shit done. This first segment is told by a physician/neighbor of an unfortunate family; at the moment, he’s relating events that happened two years previously … events that look rather alarmingly like things he’s seeing again. This is an intro of patterns and peril.

    Things accomplished in real life: Straightened house; made preparations to leave for Portland tomorrow (bought train tickets, confirmed hotel room); went to Walgreens to nab a couple things I forgot yesterday; spent some quality time with Amelie, giving her lunch; talked to Emily at Oregon Public Broadcasting about doing Northwest Passages on Thursday; did nothing else but sit around with Bloodshot edits and try not to freak out at how bad they are and how much work I need to do — no seriously, if I were my Bantam editor I would’ve sent me an anthrax-o-gram by now, because this draft is godawful.

    Total Official Word Count of 2010: 25,576 words

Category: misc

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2 Responses to “March 23, 2010”

  1. Marion Deeds
    March 25th, 2010 @ 3:19 pm

    This is a great post! What an inspiring idea, and a clever way to whip up curiosity about the new project.

  2. Cherie
    March 25th, 2010 @ 4:39 pm

    Heh – thanks Marion. I’ve been doing these for years; it keeps me working, and keeps me honest. It’s also nice to scroll back and watch the progress as a project comes together :)

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