And now it's time to sing along

Here's recent 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, two spies with less in common than they think, a conflicted U.S. Marshal, and Bonus! not-at-all mad scientist who can save the world if someone will just give him a chance:
Project: Fiddlehead
Deadline: October 1, 2012
New words written: 4260 (still barely respectable - only a little better than 1k/day)
Present total word count: 66,101 words





Things accomplished in real life since last post: Daily jogs with the dog before breakfast; resumed the yoga routine; phone calls with parents (each, respectively); visit with my cousins, who swung by to say hello and meet Greyson; important emails which must not be discussed here, yet; sent off the kitten to his new home; cleaned house; did all the laundry; began generally recovering from being sick, but not really until a couple of days ago.

Other: I actually wrote almost all of those words today, though in my defense, I spent a couple of days kind of generally unraveling some finer plot points and fixing mistakes. This is partly why that number feels like such a failure; it meets the bare minimum of a 1k/day average, but does no more - and I'm too worn out to keep writing right now. Maybe this evening.

Other, encore: Congrats to all the Hugo winners! I wish I could've been there to dole out hugs in person, but alas. Such is life. Maybe next year?