October 21, 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: 4851 (not bad – but it's a 2-day total)

Present total word count: 104,529 words

Things accomplished in real life: Day-job work; went to postal place; went to Walgreens to pick up prescription; made impulse purchase re: lovely wool coat in the window of a second-hand shop that has been calling my name for days; went to eye doctor's office and got my glasses adjusted (they needed it DESPERATELY); gave Macmillan yet another W9 (Christ, they must have a dozen of them by now); exchanged miscellaneous business emails and did the usual writer business work that took up way more time than it should have.

Other: That total isn't bad – but it'd be better if it wasn't a two-day total. Even so, I wrote about 4K of that today, and I will try to get more done this evening. We'll see how that works out.

Total Official Word Count of 2010: 233,120 words

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