October 19, 2010

Here's today'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: 1981 (crap crap crap)

Present total word count: 99,658 words

Things accomplished in real life: Day-job work – including some extra work, in order to catch up from being a little slow while out of town; daily run/climb; spent some time on the phone for a pre-interview with a nice man from NPR re: an upcoming in-person interview; exchanged many business-y emails; negotiated another two interviews (1 with book club, 1 with website); turned down one anthology invite; got ready for tomorrow's event in Tacoma; did laundry.

Other: I will try to write more this evening, but I have to stop for supper and/or to pull laundry out of the dryers downstairs – and subsequently sort and fold it and put it away. So, yeah. Later. More words. NEED MOAR WORDS.

Total Official Word Count of 2010: 228,269 words

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