Project: Radium Town, the Steampunk Weird West adventure set in my hometown of Claremore, Oklahoma at the dawn of statehood and featuring Will Rogers and Tom Mix.
Writing stage: First Draft
Today’s Word Count: 485. It came really close to being zilch, so I’ll take it.
Total Word Count: 5,030
What happened: Betty met Mary Bayless, the richest woman in town, who invited her and the professor to dinner.
Favorite line(s):
Still smiling, she extended her hand. “I’m Mary Bayless. My husband John was a great admirer of the professor’s.”
“Was?” Betty asked as she shook the woman’s hand. “Did the professor do something to sour Mr. Bayless’s admiration?”
“Not at all.” Her smile wavered only an instant as she said, “Mr. Bayless passed away earlier this year.”
“Oh.” Brilliant deduction there, Agent Blake. “I’m so sorry to hear that.”
C25K/UFYH: Not a durn thing, on either count. But I was right about yesterday’s Pilates workout leaving me sore, so I don’t feel too bad about it.
Other: Took Sasha back to the vet for a checkup. The vet told us that she attended a seminar the other day and learned about an experimental treatment that might help. She ran tests and Sasha’s blood count’s not quite high enough to qualify her for it, but the vet is going to do some more research to see if we can do anything to build up her red cell count enough that we can go through with the treatment. It won’t necessarily save her life, but it sounds like it has a good chance of slowing things down and buying her some time and relieving her pain.
Otherwise, I finished the development stage of my client’s website, and now we just need to load in the content. I don’t know how close she is to having all of the copy written, but I’m hoping it’ll be ready to launch by the end of the week. I also got a call from my husband’s cousin, who had a new client lead for me, which if it pans out will shore up the rest of this month for us, so my fingers are crossed that that’ll work out.