LP: 72,705

72,705 words in the LP project.

LP: 71,187

71,187 words in the LP project.

LP: 70,019

70,019 words in the LP project.  This was my goal for the end of the month, so I'm a little bit ahead of schedule!

Wearing a Wrist Brace

started wearing a wrist brace today.  It is helping so far.

LP: 69,056

69,056 words in the LP project.

LP: 68,022

68,022 words in the LP project.  Wrote 1,010 words today.

LP: 67,012

67,012 words in LP project.  1660 words today.

LP: 65,352

65,352 words in the LP project.  Only 15,000 more to go!

LP: 63,679

63,679 words in the LP project.

LP: 62,656

62,656  words in LP project.

LP: 61,380

61,380 words in the LP project.  Been busy with vacations for the last few days.

LP: 60,318

60,318 words in the LP project.

LP: 59,336

59,336 words in the LP project!  another 1500 words today.  It can be my new daily goal.

LP: 57,739

57,739 words in the LP project.  I'm doing 1500 words a day for 4 days to make up for the two days I didn't get any writing done.  It was surprisingly easy today to get in 1500 words.  I wrote 500 words for each character: JB, Booth, and Jim.  If possible I'd like to keep this up, and make 1500 my standard daily output.

Dim Sum instead of Writing

didn't get any writing done today.  Instead, we went to Chinatown for dim sum.  It was good.  So now I'm behind 2,000 words!  Gotta catch up in the next week.  Maybe 1,500 words a day for the next four days.

The convention was totally awesome.  chatted with Anthony Montgomery (Mayweather in Enterprise, Rom, and Nog (both from DS9).  Really spent  some solid time talking to all three.  Also Skye and I got our photo taken with William Shatner.  I'll post pics later!

Meeting the Captain

so today I may not get much, or any writing done today.  The family is going to the Star Trek convention at the Westin O'Hare.  We will get a photo of us and Captain Kirk.  William Shatner will speak to the convention and then stick around for photos.  Captain Janeway will also be there, I think on stage with Shatner.  Our first ST convention!

LP: 56,192

56,192 words in the LP project.  I did some surgery this morning, fixing some of the present time sections of the story.  This will help tie together the past section and the future section under one broad storyline.  Initially I didn't have a good way to tie the past and future sections together, But I've come up with the storyline that makes enough sense to do so.

LP: 55,140

55,140 words in the LP project.

LP: 53,662

53,662 words on LP project.  A thousand new words today -- all fresh!  I've moved beyond what I already wrote.  Used the dictation software.  It feels very comfortable to compose that way.

LP: 52,609

52,609 words in LP project.  I've finished the old J of K draft, so now it's all fresh writing.  The plan is to continue and the J of K story until around 80,000 words.  Then I'll go back and write more of the Spirit Jar story, and then I'll take out some introductory  material that no longer fits.  I've got an overall plot line that ties together the Spirit Jar and J of K -- enough of a connection to make sense as a novel.  So by the end of summer I'll have a draft of LP done.  The next step will be taking J of K and separating it out and finishing it as its own novel.  Then I'll do the same with the Spirit Jar.  So that's three novels.  But really, finishing LP will be the accomplishment of the summer.  My first novel.

LP: 50,004

50,004 words in the LP project!