Category Archives: Writing log

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]

Wrote 235 words for Elin. The scene with Walter and his lieutenants, and started a scene with Geoffrey. But the most of today’s time went to reading and reviewing someone else’s extract on YouWriteOn.com. Still waiting for Elin’s second review. [This status update originally published at thesupercargo.com]

Wrote 848 words. The bedchamber scene is OK I think. Added some bits to Walter’s scene with his lieutenants, wrote/re-wrote part of Elin’s dream. [This status update originally published at thesupercargo.com]

Wrote 626, not all of which went into the total as I also cut quite a lot. Am back in the bedchamber with Helena, Meg and Nell. Not happy. Re-writing. Also re-wrote the first section putting it into the past tense. [This status update originally published at thesupercargo.com]

Wrote 1345 words – Helena’s letter to her mother describing her situation. This forms the beginning of Part 2. I reworked the earlier draft (see link ‘My Dearest Mother’ to the left) and tried to remove all anachronisms. Elin’s extract on You Write On received it’s first review. The reviewer didn’t like my use of […]