September 21, 2010

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Here’s the weekend’s progress on my Hunley version 4.0 submarine book about Andan Cly and his crew having a damp misadventure in a Texian-occupied New Orleans, plus Bonus! guerrilla warfare, other assorted historic pirates, and an octoroon madam who moonlights as a Union spy.

Project: Ganymede
Deadline: November 1, 2010
New words written: 1310 (bah)
Present total word count: 70,036 words




Things accomplished in fiction: Checked out the Ganymede.

Next up: Take it for a test run.

Things accomplished in real life: Day-job work; went to Best Buy because printer suddenly decided it was out of ink; quick Target run for mailing supplies and essentials; went to PetCo to pick up fish supplies (out of de-chlorination chemicals); came home and printed out contracts (finally) plus an unrelated agreement; packed up some books to various assorted people; toted the whole batch of stuff down to the postal shop and mailed it; did laundry (situation was becoming desperate); crashed.

Other: It’s a shit word count, yes. But in my defense, see above. I’ve barely been home all day, and when I was, my time was devoted to day-job work instead. Because it’s paying my rent right now, that’s why.

Other, part deux: I might try to scrape out a little more creative output tonight, but it’s after 7:00 p.m. here and frankly I’m kind of wiped out. There’s only so much “me” to go around, you know?

Total Official Word Count of 2010: 198,647 words

Category: misc

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