I know that the last post here was one where I berated myself for missing a week...

And now I've missed four.

Damn. On the bright side, I have been working on The Tinkers (the project I would love to have done by the end of the year, at least a first draft). I'll try to get an excerpt of that on the site here as soon as possible. I've been writing the first draft on my typewriter, so I've had to transcribe it all, but I've done the first fifty or so pages and am going to use my computer to finish the rest of it - turns out the rest of the family doesn't love listening to the surprisingly loud clacking of those keys when they're up early in the morning too. Who knew?

I'll make a note for myself to go through the prologue for the Tinkers and get that up here as soon as possible. I love the prologue, even in its very rough form. It's unlike anything I've published up to this point, but I think it has more of the style I would like to employ going forward - it's fantasy, with a Victorian setting, so it lets me use some more convoluted language than I could get away with in either of my first two books, and I would say it's got a little more whimsy, and I know that I for one could use some more whimsy. I find more enjoyment in those sci-fi/fantasy adventures that don't take themselves too seriously, and that's kind of what I'm going for with that one.

I've got eighteen days to finish the first draft if I'm to make my goal. I'm not quite at the climax of the story, but I'm getting there. I still have hope.