Thud: The Robot Monuments
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leahbobetMarch 9, 2016 Progress Notes:
The Robot Monuments
Words today: 100 last night, 850 tonight.
Words total: 15,950.
Reason for stopping: Bedtime.
Darling du Jour: Miles and miles of scaffolds and sparks arc through the air, and at their centres, crouched down and still big as the sky, are the robots.
Research Roundup: Local food of Hokkaido; earthquake-proof construction techniques.
Books in progress: Amanda Sun, Heir to the Sky; Lena Coakley, Worlds of Ink and Shadow.
It is a good feeling when after a day of not doing much at all (I didn't get a day off this weekend, and I won't next, so I forced myself to schedule one in between) I open a manuscript thinking there's nothing to say to it tonight, and almost a thousand words fall out.
Not the places I thought I'd be working tonight: a lot of fleshing out of a sequence that goes midway in the first third, and sending a few little tendrils from it into the last third of the book. Setting setting setting. Setting, and some relationship establishment.
I might need to name a few more pilots at this point. The placeholder NAME things are getting intrusive.
The Robot Monuments
Words today: 100 last night, 850 tonight.
Words total: 15,950.
Reason for stopping: Bedtime.
Darling du Jour: Miles and miles of scaffolds and sparks arc through the air, and at their centres, crouched down and still big as the sky, are the robots.
Research Roundup: Local food of Hokkaido; earthquake-proof construction techniques.
Books in progress: Amanda Sun, Heir to the Sky; Lena Coakley, Worlds of Ink and Shadow.
It is a good feeling when after a day of not doing much at all (I didn't get a day off this weekend, and I won't next, so I forced myself to schedule one in between) I open a manuscript thinking there's nothing to say to it tonight, and almost a thousand words fall out.
Not the places I thought I'd be working tonight: a lot of fleshing out of a sequence that goes midway in the first third, and sending a few little tendrils from it into the last third of the book. Setting setting setting. Setting, and some relationship establishment.
I might need to name a few more pilots at this point. The placeholder NAME things are getting intrusive.
