PROGRESS REPORT: WEEK ENDING NOVEMBER 23, 2024

 Since I don't post PROGRESS REPORTS on Saturdays, I hope those who celebrated had a good Doctor Who Day November 23.

Now then, as mentioned last week, ♫I'm back in the saddle again♫ to quote one of my dad's heroes: Gene Autry, trying to catch up on my writing.

At the moment I'm still transcribing all my hand written notes.

After I finished those to complete SOLITAIRE 2: THE AGENDA, I started a new novel called ZEPHYR LILY.

The title lady was originally to be my contribution to Jim Beard's 1970s set sequel to the SUPER SWINGIN' HEROES 1968 SPECIAL Anthology from Mechanoid Press.

That project unfortunately got canceled, but Jim was nice enough to let everyone keep the material(s) they were working on, hence I still have LILY.

I had no luck finding a home for the original short story, so I'm rewriting and fleshing out the entire plot and concept into a full length novel.

In the coming weeks I'll share more details about who ZEPHYR LILY is but, since I'm in a musical mood today, ♫“Where it all ends I can't fathom, my friends,♫ to quote Jimmy Buffett.

However, there is no way I will let good material wither in my files.

I still have Chapter 2 to finish transcribing, which will give me about the first 5000 words to the overall manuscript.

Once that's done, I will take a short break to go back over and proofread SOLITAIRE 2 before sending it off to Airship 27 for publication.

Then I will be devoting at least the rest of 2024 to ZEPHYR LILY, when I'm not dealing with The Free Choice E-zine and the rest of my life's responsibilities.

The latter includes the upcoming Thanksgiving Holiday weekend, which will be spent with friends and family.

Sadly, as the years pass and times change, there are two personal Thanksgiving traditions that I have been unable to observe since the start of the current millennium.

Enjoying the annual Mystery Science Theatre 3000 Turkey Day marathon and one particular episode of WKRP In Cincinnati.

In any event, I hope those celebrating remember to be thankful for the good things you have in life, and I'll see you around the Internet.

Take care.

Lee Houston, Junior

24 November, 2024

PROGRESS REPORT: WEEK ENDING DECEMBER 12, 2020

A special tree. No L. (Noel 😉 )

First and foremost, my apologies for not posting this December 13 but after spending most of the morning and afternoon putting up and decorating my tree for the holidays, discovered the hard way that I had no Internet service, which didn't come back online until about an hour before I posted this week's Progress Report.

2020, the year that keeps on giving! 😝

Now then, between two different doctor appointments this past week (and still no TARDIS!), grocery shopping and other household tasks and chores, afraid I didn't get much actual writing done.

What little I did accomplish was on the SCIENCE FICTION PROJECT, which is starting to shape up very well.

Kind of flying by the seat of my pants on this, like one of those old time Saturday Matinee Movie Serials where you have absolutely no idea what is going to happen from one chapter/page to the next.

To quote Jimmy Buffett...

♫Where it all ends I can't fathom my friends

If I knew I might toss out my anchor♫

Or in plain English, I'm having a load of fun at the keyboard and can't wait to see what happens next!

With that in mind I better get back to writing now.

Take care.

STAY SAFE! 😷

And I'll see you around the Internet.

Lee Houston, Junior

14 December, 2020

PROGRESS REPORT: WEEK ENDING MAY 9, 2020

Finished going back over the SOLITAIRE manuscript and, between tweaking and tightening the text here and there, wound up adding an additional 150+ words, bringing the count up to almost 34,000 as I picked up where I left off.
Solitaire (the character) is still in Japan as I post this, fighting the good fight and still has a couple of more stops to go after leaving the Orient before Book 1's adventure is over.
♫Where it all ends I can't fathom my friends♫
Then again, I already know but I can't tell you, especially since I need to get back to writing now.😉

Take care, and I'll see you around the Internet.

Lee Houston, Junior

10 May, 2020