18,242 words, or 36.5 percent done.

It's going well.  Anyone else?

No, I'm serious.  I really did do some work on Underworld today.  In fact, I did quite a lot.

The last word count I had on this seemingly endless novel was 79,478 words.  Today, after some furious keyboard pounding and stream-of-consciousness writing (giving the middle finger to Writer's Fear/Block), the word count total stands at a rather ( Read more... )

I've been productive.  Plotting and box scores/game summaries for The Final Nine are complete.  Tomorrow I will attend the local Starbucks and see what I can do about getting Underworld finished off with that final fight scene chapter and the epilogue.  Oh, I also have finished the Halloween decorations and really given the house a good cleaning as ( Read more... )

Today while doing time in the Sacramento Municipal Courthouse waiting to be called to life as a juror (and I wasn't, so their loss), I decided to do some plotting on The Final Nine and make good use of my spare time.  More specifically, I decided now was the time to begin shaping the ballgames into something more of a coherent narrative.  My ( Read more... )

The other day at work I was stuck in God-awful traffic for about a half hour, so I decided to bring out the notebook and do some note-taking on The Final Nine in order to get a little closer to the goal of having it mapped before National Novel Writing Month begins.  Which, by the way, is 18 days away, according to the trusty Get Fuzzy desk ( Read more... )

This morning I called in to work about 4:20 AM because I was suffering from such horrid sleep deprivation that I actually walked into a wall three times, the third time managing to clobber myself in the head.  This sort of physical state is not conducive to driving a 20-ton vehicle down narrow streets, so I quite sensibly called it a day at that ( Read more... )

While I was driving the bus at OMG Early O'Clock this morning, it occurred to me that National Novel Writing Month is less than a month away--exactly four weeks according to my desk calendar--and I have yet to put down word one of my pre-launch plotting.

Uh-oh.

I also haven't finished Underworld yet, which is thoroughly shameful.  I suppose I could ( Read more... )

First off, the obligatory "Underworld" progress update:


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