THOSE OF YOU who live in easy proximity to downtown Seattle may read the newest incarnation of the print MISC, a column in the monthly Belltown Messenger tabloid. It’s free to pick up at the Two Bells bar, BBC Studio/Ola Wyola Boutique, and several other dropoff points. That column was compiled from items that appeared on this site in the past month or so; any future installments with original material will be posted here.

WITH ONE DAY TO GO in National Novel Writing Month, I’ve posted five more chapters to my successful entry The Myrtle of Venus to this site. As usual, the story starts at this link. The just-posted scenes start at this link.

The final sixteen chapters will be available here sometime within the next week.

No, not just sort of. Real, honest-to-Godot VICTORY!!!

Yes, I have indeed made the 50,000-word mark on my National Novel Writing Month exercise The Myrtle of Venus. Nine or ten (non-consecutive) scenes still exist only in rough outline form; I’ll try to flesh them out over the long weekend to have a finished rough draft within NaNoWriMo’s 30-day time frame. When I get them done, I’ll post them (and the already finished scenes interspersed with them) to this site.

STILL HAVEN’T HIT the 50,000-word mark yet today, but I have added two more chapters of The Myrtle of Venus to this site. As usual, the story starts at this link. The new parts start at this link.

I FULLY EXPECT to write the 50,000th word of The Myrtle of Venus today (Wednesday). Currently at 48,001.

SIX BIG NEW CHAPTERS from my formative novel The Myrtle of Venus are now up. The whole thing starts at this link. The additional material begins at this link.

As of this morning, my novel-in-gestation The Myrtle of Venus is up to a whoppin’ 45,026 words. But several major scenes still need to be embellished from rough form into full prose, so the final thing’ll likely be longer than the NaNoWriMo minimum of 50,000.

Some of you have asked how many printed pages that will mean. Trade books can have as many as 500 or as few as 200 words per page, so no accurate comparison can be made. A 50,000-word text could fill between 100 and 250 book pages; even more if you add blank pages between chapters or scatter pictures through the thang.

…from my novel-in-formation The Myrtle of Venus are now up. The whole thing starts at this link. The newly-added stuff begins at this link.

Current total word count, including scenes not yet posted to this site: 41,234.

BEEN A BUSY BEE TODAY. Now up for your pleasure are five more chapters from my novel project The Myrtle of Venus. The whole thing starts at this link. The just-now-posted stuff begins at this link.

Am closing in on 40,000 words, and fully plan to break that mark tonite.

JUST TO MAKE IT UP TO YOU ALL, I’ve posted not three but a whopping six new chapters of my novel in progress The Myrtle of Venus. The story’s beginning is still at this link. The first of today’s just-added installments is at this link.

So sue me. Instead of formatting chapters to upload to this site, I spent today writing more chapters. So now I’m up to 38,166 words; with 11,384 to add over the next nine days.

Up to 35,405 words in the wee hours of Friday. Two or three more chapters should be up here on the site later today.

EIGHT MORE CHAPTERS from my NaNoWriMo novel-writing project The Myrtle of Venus are now up at this link. (I’m now up to 32,250 words, including chapters not yet posted to the site.)

When I crashed last night, I’d gotten to 31036 words. That’s a little ahead of the pace needed to complete 50,000 in 30 days; yet the story looks like it’ll take more than that to be fully fleshed out. Some more excerpts should be up on this site later today.

Spent the entire day writing and got all the way up to a whoppin’ 28,022 words. Will try to sprint toward the full 50,000-word quota over the upcoming week or so.

You may now see the first half-dozen mini-chapters of my National Novel Writing Month project, The Myrtle of Venus, at this link.