That's the NaNoWriMo tally as of last night on my new Wayzgoose story, It Ain't Immortality, But... I suppose I should get to writing for this week. I also managed to get 4,000 new words in on The Assassin, so I guess 20k for a week is pretty good. I'm pretty relaxed about it this year as I keep getting distracted by the beautiful view out my window here in Port Townsend, WA. Today is clear and sunny (though cold) and the view of Mount Baker is breath-taking. My Tier 3 ($10/month) Patreon members are reading along with both stories. I posted chapter five of Immortality and chapter 13 of Assassin this morning for them. So far comments are good.
I got my reserve computer back from the repair shop on Tuesday, which kept me distracted from obsessively watching election returns. The computer works but they were unable to recover any data from it. New drive. Fortunately, there are only a couple of things missing that I have to reconstruct. I guess I was pretty lucky. Now I have a remote drive attached to the computer and it automatically backs up everything that's changed once an hour. Now that I've locked the barn, please check around to see if any of my horses are running in your pasture.
I've been asked about finishing "The Transmogrification of Jacob Hopkins 5", Double Team. One reader was concerned that I'd get tired of it and move on to something else without finishing it. Another worried that it would be a downer ending. I reassured both. While there's a lot of tension and action in Double Team (another reader called it a thriller), it's mostly a feel-good story. And it's finished. What I mean is that the writing and editing are finished. All the rest of the story, however, was written last summer (2019) when I was sick and just trying to finish the book before I died. It covers a lot of ground in the next month and a half.
I made a commitment to myself after writing Living Next Door to Heaven that I wouldn't start posting a book until it was finished. That's why I'm able to offer most of my stories now as eBooks around the same time they start posting as serials. I also upload all the chapters in the serial as soon as the first chapter posts, slated to post every three days. So, Double Team is all on the SOL site and the final chapter in the saga will be posted December 19. That should be just in time for you to nominate it for a Clitorides award. ;)
Pussy Pirates has also been uploaded and will post through January 20. And I have a surprise story that I'll start releasing on December 2. Not saying anything else about that right now. The new Wayzgoose story, A Place at the Table will start posting three days after Double Team is finished on December 22. Those are my plans for the rest of 2020. We'll see what the year does to mess them up next.
Hope the rest of this year starts to look up for everyone. Be well!