October 23, 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: 5236 (good – but some was written yesterday)

Present total word count: 113,113 words

Things accomplished in real life: Slept in a bit after staying up until nearly midnight to crest 110K words yesterday; daily run/climb; prepped self for tonight's event at B&N (Northgate location, Seattle, 6:00 p.m.).

Other: WE'RE GETTING THERE. Big giant humungo climactic scene: SQUARED AWAY. Now I need three smaller wind-down scenes, and folks, I think I'll have a Draft Zero. Will that happen over the weekend? I don't know. But I am going to try my damndest to make it, so that I'll have a WHOPPING WHOLE WEEK in order to clean this up for a Draft One that won't make my editor want to push me off a cliff.

Other, redux: Kat is picking me up at 4:30, so that (a). she can make another appointment after dropping me off at B&N, and (b). the husband and I can nab some supper beforehand. Ergo, I'm logging off now to go freshen up and get my act together before I jaunt off to the store and pretend to be a civilized grownup for an hour or so.

Total Official Word Count of 2010: 241,704 words

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