October 22, 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: 3348 (not bad – but some was written yesterday)

Present total word count: 107,877 words

Things accomplished in real life: Day-job work; epic crap-ton of writer-business emails that ate up half the day; found out that our car will be in the shop through Monday, despite the fact that it was supposed to be finished today – thanks Midas! You assholes!; got read the riot act by Yellow Cab cabbie over a mistake at dispatch which wasn't my fault, but hey, way to be a dick about it – and also, way to lose a customer; fretted over how I'm going to get to my event tomorrow afternoon because I sure as shit won't be using Yellow Cab; got half of day saved by Kat Richardson; still not sure how I'll be getting home, but I'll think of something.

Other: I wrote about 1000 of those words last night. Maybe I'll write more tonight, after I calm down. I'm still pretty pissed off. It's been one of those afternoons.

Total Official Word Count of 2010: 236,468 words

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