{"id":1543,"date":"2011-11-25T21:44:54","date_gmt":"2011-11-26T04:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=1543"},"modified":"2017-04-08T20:56:57","modified_gmt":"2017-04-09T03:56:57","slug":"victory-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/25\/victory-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Victory, Official"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Well, the team at Nano are handing out winner’s certificates now, so it’s official: I’ve won Nano<\/a>, with an official word count of 55,492 words. I’m still writing more of the story, but am switching to work on STRANDED tonight. I didn’t get much done over Thanksgiving, but I did get this chunk written either Wednesday night or this afternoon (don’t remember):<\/p>\n

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I shoves the monster back, between 5 and 6, dinosaur legs scrabbling, towards the loading dock shared with 7 and 8, hurling it backwards through the pedestrian rail which snaps with a tong as Mister Gargoyle falls on his fanny into a Dumpster of yesterday\u2019s garbage.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m about to leap down on it and rub his face in it, yes I am, when one of those clawed extra-thick raptor legs flies out and connects with my tiger chin. I yelp, shake it off, but when I\u2019m back to snarlin, the monster\u2019s runnin, holdin\u2019 its shoulder, limpin\u2019 off into the night.<\/p>\n

I stands on the loading dock and lets out my best bloodcurdlin\u2019 roar. I mean, I knows he\u2019s a gargoyle, but I hopes it gives him blood just so it can curdle. But the tiger doesn\u2019t want to give chase, and neither does I. The two of us are of one mind: we gotta go save All Hours Todd.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ve captured almost all of my notes on the story, so it’s hopefully safe to shift gears. Though I have to admit it’s hard to shake the momentum.<\/p>\n

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But I have deadlines … in this case, Tuesday of next week, to get a draft of STRANDED to beta readers in time to get a final to my editors by January 31, 2012.<\/p>\n

Onward!<\/p>\n

-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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