lagilman | Clarion write-a-thon update, days 8-9-10

Um, oops. No, I shall blame the lot of you, who are not clamoring for updates, nor heaping me with abuse when I fail to provide.

So there.

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Title: "Strong Earth"
Starting point: 1,100 words of outline
Goal: 20,000 words of story
Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday: 1,127
Total words: 5,809
Research: more timeline sorting, musical instruments

Yeah, I FAIL. I admit it. I have written less than 500 words a day, and the fact that one of those days was a Federal holiday does not excuse me...

*waits for the mockery*

Excerpt:

The sole voice against the garden project had been the Reverend Palmer. He had no church, no congregation, but stood in the Common on Sunday afternoons, verbally abusing the students who passed by for sloth, and most of the females for what he called the failure of their domesticity. The thought of two women, one of them unmarried, working the soil seemed to him to be a definite crime against God and the natural order of womankind.

Dead Bodies: none
Wardrobe changes: several
Things magical: many, but hidden
New Players: three

For those of you who've donated to Clarion as part of encouraging me to move forward, thank you! If you're considering: http://www.theclarionfoundation.org/writeathon/wrtn-writerpage.php?writerID=4954 And if you haven't then you have no right to mock me (but you probably will anyway, shame on you)