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

[avon7.livejournal.com]

Don't know the fandom so I got frustrated not knowing who the characters were (but then I'm not the target audience) but it was beautiful. The bone orchard - such a great phrase and so chillingly used.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

'Bone orchard' was from a book I have of obsolete American expressions... given that the setting is Old West, I had to get it in sometime, and now's as good as any :)

Thankee!