Monthly Archives: October 2012

About 670 words. Re-writing Geoffrey’s scene so not a lot more added to the total in the progress bar. [This status update originally published at thesupercargo.com]

Wrote only about 30 words today. No point in revising the progress bar. Also, finally brought myself to open and read my mother’s letter with her critique of the first 7000-odd words. I’ve had the letter since the 26th. I sent the extract to her in hard copy as she doesn’t have Internet. (I’m far […]

Zero progress today … but wrote another review for You Write On. Looks like whoever had Elin’s Story to review most recently chickened out. It’s not received a review for more than 5 days. Hmm. Yesterday’s post brought Eric Partridge’s Shakespeare’s Bawdy – language research! [This status update originally published at thesupercargo.com]

Wrote 303. Still with Geoffrey’s scene. Not happy – am I trying to make it carry too much? Over 12% completed though. Good. [This status update originally published at thesupercargo.com]

About 40 words. Hardly seems worth recording. Doesn’t affect the percentages for the progress bar. 🙁 [This status update originally published at thesupercargo.com]

Wrote 1710 words today. Great relief after the recent drought. Geoffrey’s scene – more on the layout of the house and the Gorges family. Not all of it counted in the total for the book (some of it background) but still: Progress. [This status update originally published at thesupercargo.com]

Swedish Midsummer celebrations + visit by nephew Victor (aged 9) = no words written. But I did re-read the whole text to date. It’s alright. It’s quite good actually. Onward! [This status update originally published at thesupercargo.com]

Wrote 422 words … well, I wrote more than than that but there was a deal of deleting and rewriting. New scene from Geoffrey’s p.o.v. giving something of the layout of the house including important stuff about the cellars which I hope I slipped in unobtrusively. Also wrote another review for YouWriteOn. [This status update […]

Made up in a small way for yesterday’s zero production by writing 595 words. Again the scene with Walter and his lieutenants. Received a second review at YouWriteOn (see left, at the top under ‘Elin’s Links’). Took the opportunity to edit the extract. Replaced all the present tense forms in the first scene with past […]

Today I scored a duck. [This status update originally published at thesupercargo.com]