Day 1

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Here's today's prompt for you to post your updates and any excerpts and thoughts etc in comments.

I also thought I'd provide a link to a simple word counter, the Picometer at Writertopia.com. To make it easy, just copy the following HTML, changing 1340 to the number of words you've written, and 5000 to whatever your target is:

<img src="http://picometer.writertopia.com/words=1340&target=5000" />

The result for this example is:

Comments

[elmey.livejournal.com]

Sometimes the research is harder than the writing--I'm always hoping for the one book or the one web site that tells me what I need to know. I've yet to find it.

[avon7.livejournal.com]

i'm always just hoping for the story that requires no research at all. There's a reason why I'm writing fantasy ;-)