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]

I may have to hie myself to a library. I just remembered I do have one book that should be helpful--if I can find it among long unpacked boxes. But it'll be in the library if I can't (The Great Railway Bazaar which is a fantastic book on its own account)