October 24, 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: 5535 (IT'LL DO.)

Present total word count: 118,648 words

Hot damn, y'all. I believe that's a Draft Zero. Sure, the last line might be, "Rocks fall, everyone dies" … but I'll change it later. All things being equal, this thing is more or less complete. Now it does not need to be constructed any further. It just needs to be fixed.

Total Official Word Count of 2010: 247,239 words

Dies: And is ded.

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