21st July

Wrote 99 words. An improvement on yesterday. Also wrote a (rather long) review for You Write On. The post brought Ian Mortimer’s The Time Traveller’s Guide to Elizabethan Britain. Very good! [This status update originally published at thesupercargo.com And yes, I seem to have missed the 20th July.]

19th July

Wrote 46 words. Progress at halt. 🙁 [This status update originally published at thesupercargo.com]

18th July

Wrote 1506 words – but all of it background so the progress bar stands still today. [This status update originally published at thesupercargo.com]

17th July

I’ve spent the day preparing the ground for Part 2 and have written 932 words. About half of that is for Meg’s scene with Helena in which they realise Helena is pregnant. Also received a review and wrote a review on YWO. [This status update originally published at thesupercargo.com]

16th July

Wrote upwards of 700 words of background. Otherwise mostly re-reading and making small corrections to Part 1. Printed it out and posted a copy to my mother. No changes to the progress meter. [This status update originally published at thesupercargo.com]

15th July

Wrote 1149 words of which 700+ found their way into the progress bar. I think I’ve completed Part 1. Will re-read later/tomorrow and if it looks OK I’ll print off a hard copy for safe-keeping. Otherwise I’m reviewing plots and POV characters and making notes for Part 2. [This status update originally published at thesupercargo.com]

14th July

Wrote 2231 words – all background so no change in the progress bar, but good stuff even so. [This status update originally published at thesupercargo.com]

13th July

Did some editing. Was afraid the word total in the progress metre would go back, but in the end it’s up by 16. No reason to change the percentages. Received a new review on You Write On and took the opportunity to fix one spelling mistake and two anachronisms in the excerpt on the YWO […]

12th July

Just 237 new words. Geoffrey gambling with his fellow guards. Spent a ridiculous amount of time ‘responding’ to the review I cut from Elin’s You Write On page yesterday. Inverted commas because there is no way actually to respond (there is no e-mail address or chat form), and anyway there’s no point. But it’s hard […]

11th July

No words written today for Elin. Wrote a new review and received my fifth review on You Write On (which made it possible to erase one bad review). Elin’s Story is fractionally above a 4/5 rating based on 4 votes but needs 4 more to enter the YWO charts. Received (ex-library) copies of Eric Partridge’s […]