Good-bye Rosie the Queen of Corona

Posted on | 11 months ago, around lunchtime | 1 Comment

Here’s today’s progress on my 19th century D.C. spy caper about a powerful Difference Engine that will end the Civil War – now with warhawk conspiracies, clockwork assassins, two presidents with more in common than they know, three disgraced spies with less in common than they think, and a Bonus! not-at-all mad scientist who can save the world if someone will just give him a chance:


    Project: Fiddlehead
    Deadline: September 15, 2012
    New words written: 3200 (better)
    Present total word count: 10,348 words



    Things accomplished in fiction: Secret military programs, shady Secretary of States (fictional), and two presidents (one present, one former) trying hard to figure out what’s really going on – without telling each other everything.

    Things accomplished in real life: Sent husband off to the bank to deposit a check; did some business emails; sorted out some money things online; running errands to get ready for ConTemporal this coming weekend – where I’ll be the Literary Guest of Honor. I’m really looking forward to it! I get to hang with some people I haven’t seen in ages :)

    Other: I told myself if I cracked 10K words today, I could stop and work on some little things around the house. It was over 3000 words – which is better than I’ve been doing lately. And anyway, I need a little break.

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One Response to “Good-bye Rosie the Queen of Corona”

  1. Damian Trasler
    June 18th, 2012 @ 1:28 pm

    I was grinning that I was further along than you – I cracked 20,000 words last week – then I saw that your 10,000 is only 8% of your book. Would you pass me a little more humble pie, please? I haven’t eaten enough yet…..

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