Progress report:
Last time looked at: 7/11/15
Last actual wordage added: 7/11/15
Pages added 7/11/15: 3
Current page count: 14
Estimated final page count: No idea at all; don’t know if it’s a short story or a novel.
Deadline: None. Purely speculative. Started it on a whim.
Comments: Julie and I got talking about this story, and wound up completely changing where the story was going; I like the new version much better.
So much so that I’ve stayed up much too late working on it. Finished the first chapter/section/whatever, though. Nick and Dan are on their way to Rawlinsburg, leaving Tom and Al in Osborne.
Excerpt:
“Deputy, do you really think the Devil would come riding in here on a mule, wearing a dirty old Stetson and boots with the heels worn down? I’d heard Old Scratch was a snappy dresser.”
Dan gave me a dirty look and made a sort of whinny; he never cared to be called a mule, and never mind that to all accounts and purposes he happened to be one just then.