PROGRESS REPORT: WEEK ENDING APRIL 28, 2018

I'm ALMOST done with the first draft of my Companion Dragon's novella!
Hoping to have it done by the end of this coming week.
Whenever it is finished, I will be going back to HUGH MONN, PRIVATE DETECTIVE, BOOK 3: FEMME FATALE while my friendly neighborhood beta-proofreader goes over the manuscript.
Especially since I've been wanting to get Hugh finished and move on to new material, including ALPHA 3.

In the meantime, I better get back to writing.

See you around the Internet!
Lee Houston, Junior
29 April, 2018

PROGRESS REPORT: WEEK ENDING APRIL 21, 2018

Although these Progress Reports cover the previous week, I post them on Sundays and today is very special.

🌍TODAY IS EARTH DAY!🌎

Although the issues should be addressed EVERY day, I hope everyone took the time to do something special to help the ecology, because this IS the only planet we have, and if it goes...

Anyway, all I lack is the final confrontation between the heroine Kiri and the evil villain, and my Companion Dragon tail tale is done! 😀

Of course, that climatic "battle" has to be in a G/Y7 ALL readers friendly format, which is what has me stumped at the moment.

What should it be?

Pie throwing ala The Three Stooges?

Water balloons at ten paces?

Don't worry, I'll think of something eventually.

See you around the Internet!

Lee Houston, Junior

22 April, 2018

PROGRESS REPORT: WEEK ENDING APRIL 14, 2018

Still working on my Companion Dragons' tail tale.

Approaching 28,000 words now, which is pretty good considering the novella has to be between 30,000 to 35,000 words.

Although it has an end of May deadline, should have it done before the end of April, then back to HUGH MONN, PRIVATE DETECTIVE, BOOK 3: FEMME FATALE while my friendly neighborhood beta-proofreader and Dragons' series editor reviews my work.

Going back to writing now.
Take care.
Lee Houston, Junior
15 April, 2018

PROGRESS REPORT: WEEK ENDING APRIL 7, 2018

Wish I had something new to report, but I'm still working on the Companion Dragons' novella for my friendly neighborhood beta-proofreader Nancy Hansen.

As entertaining as working on this has been (and if you've ever stopped writing to react to your own prose, then you know what I mean), I long to be on a different project too.
But if I switch to something else, that would just delay the dragons from being completed.
It's bad enough I haven't finished HUGH MONN, PRIVATE DETECTIVE, BOOK 3: FEMME FATALE yet as it is.

The dragon adventure IS over 25,000+ words now, so I should have it finished before the end of April.
How long it takes to finish HUGH after that remains to be seen.
But to get anything done, I better get back to writing now.

Take care, and I'll see you around the Internet.
Lee Houston, Junior
8 April, 2018

PROGRESS REPORT: WEEK ENDING MARCH 31, 2018

HOPPY EASTER!

Unusual time at the moment, with Easter and April Fools' Day both falling on the first of the month this year.

In any event, got some serious work done on the Companion Dragons' adventure this past week.
Am approaching the 25,000 word mark, with the minimum goal of 30,000 in sight.
Maximum word count is 35,000 words on these novellas, but I'll have the tale wrapped up before then.

Will admit that it's been harder to do than I first thought, trying to find a balancing act between adventure and maintaining a "G" rating, or "Y7" if this was a television program.
Not sure how all those other series do it.
After all, you have to have some danger and excitement during the adventure, yet you don't want to scare your audience so much that you lose them.

Definitely will have the dragon slayed, I mean: finished this month, with the completion of HUGH MONN, PRIVATE DETECTIVE, BOOK 3: FEMME FATALE my immediate goal afterward.
After that...???

But while the weather hasn't really shown any major signs of improvement yet—where the heck is Spring???—there is one bright ray of hope on the horizon.

The 2018 Baseball ⚾ season has begun!😁 GO RED SOX!

Take care, and I'll see you around the Internet.
Lee Houston, Junior
1 April, 2018