Short Stories:
"Of Light and Darkness" - in revision*
* this is part of my Twilight of the Idle short story series along with"Labellypock", "A Night on the Fronde" and "Out of Time (Ped Xing)"
"Psychic Hearts" - in revision
"How My Uncle Faught The Spanish Civil War" - 1000 words
"Il Brute" - 700 words, a short story about living in Bridgeland
Novel Ideas (and working titles):
A Saturday Afternoon By The Slurpee Machine - 2100 words, growing up in NE Calgary, circa 1990
Games of Chance - 11000 words, quasi-related to the current economic downturn
The Last Days of the Daily Wenzel - 8150 words
Father Borsato di Sangi - notes only, about a priest in small town Alberta, circa 1910,
Mt. Pilatus Calls My Name - notes only, a corporate satire
Good Ideas At The Time (Whole draft novels):
joculatores domini - in revision, a novel about parking attendants and the Calgary Stampede
The Liminal Trip - in revision, backpacking through Europe,
August's Total Word Count: 11000*
I have no idea what my word count for August actually was as I was on holidays. I did a fair bit of writing - I'm quite happy with the amount that I wrote, but it was all handwritten in one of my notebooks, so I don't know what kind of word counts I accomplished. I'm hoping that I'll be able to type it all up during September, however, given how going back to work is putting a considerable cramp in my writing time we'll see how things go. Plus, as some of you have noticed, I've started doing some writing for Spectrum Culture in addition to my regular gig for Fast Forward Weekly.
Based on my start of summer calculations, my word count for end of September ought to be closer to 45,000. However, to be honest, if it was even close to 25,000 I would be very happy, since it would represent a fair bit of typing. I also found an older short story of mine, "Psychic Hearts" that was written after the four Twilight of the Idle stories, but before "Summer of Sloth", so editting that would also be an accomplishment.
Not that anyone cares, but for the last ten years I've done the bulk of my writing in my old university chemistry laboratory notebooks which are A9 Bluelines. Super durable and cheap, but that doesn't stop me from dreaming of these.
