Or better still, just stop the train, 'cause I wanna look around

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: 2185 (satisfactory if not great)

Present total word count: 30,686 words

Things accomplished in real life: Daily run/climb; emails of importance; restored apartment to its pre-Mom-visit state; arranged a couple of interviews; agreed to/planned to head back to California at the end of the month for work; struggled with the near-irresistible desire to take a nap and won.

Things accomplished in fiction: Got out of bed and dressed, and made a new friend. Sort of. Found a new tour guide, at the very least.

Next up: Meet a ghost or two.

Other: Ordinarily I'd be pretty content with 2000 words for the day, but I'm in the middle of a day-job soft-spot, and I really had nothing else to do today. There should've been more words. The only thing I have to say in my defense is that I'd gone nearly a week without writing anything (courtesy of aforementioned mom-visit) and it's always a little tough, getting back on the pony. I am told that this will be a slow week for day-job duties, so it is to be hoped that I can improve that count going forward.

Total narrative fiction word count for 2011: 30,686 words



In other news, because people have been asking – yes, I joined google+ … and I'm lurking there under the cryptic handle of "Cherie Priest." Add me if you like. But bear in mind, I'm still getting a feel for it – and I'm not sure how much I plan to use it. I've only barely begun the process of sorting people into "folks I know" and "folks I don't know," so I'm rather seriously behind the curve on this thing.

Anyway. If anyone knows/has/feels like recommending a good cross-poster between google+/Facebook/Twitter then I, for one, would be very keen to hear about it. I don't have the time or energy to maintain a constantly growing and vast internet network, despite the fact that I am sometimes accused of doing so.

Cross-posting is the only thing that makes it possible.

To wit: my home page (CheriePriest.com) cross-posts to LiveJournal, in case anyone is still reading over there (and because it was my very first blog, and I find it dificult to abandon). Likewise, my Twitter feed cross-posts to Facebook. So the whole shebang is really only half the work that it first appears.

Therefore, anyone who wants to help me integrate google+ into this network is more than welcome to do so; and should that integration occur, I will be much more likely to make much more use of google+ in the future.

Edited to add: Courtesy of a helpful commenter, I have learned this – Chrome users can cross-post (after a fashion) through Start G+. At present, this service will not cross-post to FB, despite claiming that it can; however, it does crosspost to Twitter. And if, like me, your tweets crosspost to FB, then you're golden.

Thus, an update from my google+ goes like this:google+ –> Twitter

Twitter –> Facebook

However, if your update is longer than 140 characters, the tweet isn't simply truncated or cut with a link. It bounces. Fair warning! So it's clunky, but it works. More or less. If imperfectly.

[Crossposted from my website. If you'd like to comment, you can do so either here or there.]