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The pirate story (working title: By The Time I Get To Phoenix) has reached about 3700 words, but it's nowhere near finished. Still, that's about 1200 words for today, which is good progress.
Meanwhile, the pirates in my pirate story are the very same pirates as in Novel the Second, and part of the backbrain simmering going on with that is the realization that the pirates in the novel don't do enough and aren't around enough. So this short story is also a good exercise in getting to know my pirates better, because part of fixing the novel is going to be letting my pirates have a lot more fun at my characters' expense.
I'm hoping to be able to get this and one other short out the door before Boskone, and then I'm going to fall back into Novel the Second and make it work.
Meanwhile, the pirates in my pirate story are the very same pirates as in Novel the Second, and part of the backbrain simmering going on with that is the realization that the pirates in the novel don't do enough and aren't around enough. So this short story is also a good exercise in getting to know my pirates better, because part of fixing the novel is going to be letting my pirates have a lot more fun at my characters' expense.
I'm hoping to be able to get this and one other short out the door before Boskone, and then I'm going to fall back into Novel the Second and make it work.
