Clarion Update, Day 3

Title: "Strong Earth"
Starting point: 1,100 words of outline
Goal: 20,000 words of story
Today: 517
Total words: 2085
Research: none

No time for more today, plus there's research to be done before I can finish the scene.

Excerpt:

The crowd of men had not worried Elizabeth before. Now, the desire to stare nearly overwhelmed her, and the skin of her fingers itched under her gloves. She rubbed the tips together as discreetly as she could, and wished that she was back in the greenhouse, where the world made sense.




Dead Bodies: none, but a fight's about to break out.
Wardrobe changes: one
Things magical: only referenced.
Tea consumed: none.


For those of you who've donated to Clarion, thank you! If you're considering: http://www.theclarionfoundation.org/writeathon/wrtn-writerpage.php?writerID=4954

How it looks from here....

Today: pick up rental car, hit midtown to do the RWA bar-meetings thing (if you're there, look for me in the bar!), work on Other pending Projects, head out to NJ tonight.

Wednesday: teach all day (YA writing workshop), come back, drop off car, head back downtown for RWA-related dinner.

Thursday: agent lunch, a networking meeting, try to hammer out more wordage on everything, publisher party.

Friday: finish all the work I didn't get done.


For someone not actually attending RWA, it's chewing up a lot of my week...