Escorted by a walking dead man, Chris let himself be led into Government House. Current word count: 60,728New words this session: 1,423Percentage of novel completed: 60.7

Chris Keating edged around the walls of the guardroom as he fled the prison, trying to avoid the blood that covered, it seemed, everything, and trying not to look at the ruined bodies of the Holy Warriors who had been guarding him. Current word count: 59,305New words this session: 1,492Percentage of novel completed: 59.3

U.S. researchers have developed the world’s first working invisibility cloak–although at the moment, it only works at a single specific frequency, and in the microwave range of the spectrum, not the visible range. But it’s a start…

The first time we took our daughter Alice outside as an infant, she looked distinctly worried. “What the heck is this giant bright windy place?” she seemed to thinking. “Life is just one darn thing after another.” But how, at her age, had she learned what a “worried face” looks like? Charles Darwin argued in …

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Many apartments were empty, but Emily noticed one in particular: “Chris Keating,” it said on the annunciator panel in the lobby. Current word count: 57,813New words this session: 1,859Percentage of novel completed: 57.8

Well, here I am on the far side of the big move (we switched houses with my mother-in-law). My office is, if not exactly in order, at least in enough semblance of order that I can actually do some work in it and resume important activities like…well, blogging! No fiction since Saturday, I’m afraid, but …

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The lights from Jumpoff Station provided plenty of illumination this close to the giant spheres, but not far away the darkness lurked, waiting for them.Current word count: 55,954New words this session: 991Percentage of novel completed: 55.9 Most of today was spent on moving (except for going to the Regina Symphony Orchestra concert tonight and a …

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For ten minutes Chris Keating called Richard Hansen’s name, but finally gave up and sat back down on his bench/cot.Current word count: 54,963New words this session: 1,232Percentage of novel completed: 54.9

IBM has developed a speech-to-speech translator. No, it’s not Star Trek‘s “Universal Translator,” but give it a couple of centuries…

“Grand Deacon–” Richard began to protest.Current word count: 53,731New words this session: 1,021Percentage of novel completed: 53.7

From now through the middle of next week, my main focus is on our house move, so blogging will range from light to non-existant, I expect. (Although you never know…) I’ll be without computer or Internet for at least a day, most likely, among other things. I’ll still try to get that “First sentence I …

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The playback began, and Emily watched in horror as her world was destroyed.Current word count: 52,710New words this session: 1,817Percentage of novel completed: 52.7 I wrote the first part of today’s count sitting in the Vancouver airport waiting for my flight to board, and the second part sitting in my usual spot in the Second …

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