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August 19, 2005
Day 9-10: Stonking Good Day
Today the UMBRA manuscript hit 20,000 words--not bad after only two weeks' work, and 11,500 words just this past week alone. How good do I feel about this? Consider: last November I struggled and tried and worked myself into a miserable lather trying to rewrite the infamous and failed WHISTLER as a Nanowrimo project. This attempt fell over stone dead at the 20,000-mark, and began a succession of soul-sucking attempts to rewrite the damn thing all kinds of different ways, none of which ever got as far as 20,000 words.
In today's episode, Our Hero learns that things have gotten Very Bad Indeed, worse even than they were up to this point. Soon he will be sitting around wishing he was back in the first part of the story again, when life was (relatively) easy. Heh.
So, even though I'm currently hosting a miserable headache--the first in a few days--I'm feeling very good about things. Even better, I also fixed a problem with my parents' computer, which mysteriously wasn't going along with the idea of dialling up to get online. This turned out to be a matter of checking an unchecked box in the Account Settings, and took only about three minutes flat to sort out. Normally when my folks' computer has a problem, it becomes this epic tale of woe in which the only reasonable conclusion is that reality is different in my parents' house, and things don't work the way they should, particularly computers.
Publisher Brian got in touch today to report that he's sent me a nice cheque (he goes to the trouble of organising it in Australian currency, which can't be cheap, and is very thoughtful), and that the production of ECLIPSE is proceeding apace. Copies should be available September 19. I can't wait to see it.
He also reported that a certain other Top Secret development, which I'm going to call "Project Mimosa" (because it has nothing to do with mimosas, and thus I can't get into trouble for mentioning it), is also moving along, and that I will be hearing soon from someone associated with it.
Posted by adrian at August 19, 2005 09:12 PM
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oooh! project mimosa! i'm all a-giddy!
Posted by: river selkie ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.kabedford.com/nav-commenters.gif)
at August 20, 2005 09:34 AM
Good on ya! Congrats on hitting 20K. You really should drop by the Weekend Progress Report thread in the Humour forum over at Absolute Write. We have smiley parties for these sorts of milestones. :)
If Mimosa is what I think it is, I'm feeling all a-twitter about it on your behalf. Go man go!
Posted by: Charlie at August 19, 2005 10:57 PM
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