I feel terrible about not being there. This is the first event I've ever missed, and I am filled with self-loathing about it. What a crappy milestone.
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Here's today's progress on my fifth Clockwork Century novel - a book about teenage juvenile delinquents, hypothetical ghosts, and gangland mayhem within the walled city of Seattle ... now with Bonus! zombie Sasquatch and the return of everyone's favorite elderly cross-dressing Native American princess:
Project: Inexplicables
Deadline: September 15, 2011
New words written: 6041 (YES)
Present total word count: 113,059 words
Things accomplished in real life: Daily run/climb + yoga; jaunt to Walgreens; and nothing else at all, but hey - 6K words.
Other: Hot damn - sandbagging yesterday's day-job work worked out well. I'm back to the grind tomorrow (as it should be), but I think I might be able to finish this draft over the weekend. If I end up with a good block of time tomorrow, I may be able to do it sooner; I only have one major scene left to write, and it's essentially the wind-down.
Revenge of Other: Note, this does not mean I will have a full draft which I would inflict upon my editor. I like my editor. I wouldn't do that to her. She does not get Draft Zero. She gets Draft One. (Or sometimes, Draft Two.) My plan is to wrap up a first draft and let it "cool off" for a week, then come back and spend a week beating it into shape.
Total narrative fiction word count for 2011: 113,059 words
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