PROGRESS REPORT: WEEK ENDING MARCH 1, 2025

 I honestly don't know all the whys and wherefores, but it was another week of getting everything done except the stuff I really wanted to do.😕

I did manage to get another page or so proofread on SOLITAIRE 2: THE AGENDA, but absolutely no work on my SHERLOCK HOLMES story.😞

I'm thinking it might be for the best to concentrate all my writing time, whenever it comes along, on finishing the proofreading so I can finally get the SOLITAIRE manuscript to the publisher for eventual release.

And if you haven't done so already, please don't forget to vote in the 2025 PULP FACTORY AWARDS. One vote per person with the March 10 deadline just over the horizon.

Have a load of laundry about to finish the dryer cycle.

Still have to cook dinner.

Grocery hunting tomorrow and my birthday is this coming Wednesday.

Otherwise, my week looks pretty open right now.

I wonder how much I'll get accomplished?

In any event, I better get back to business now.

Take care.

STAY SAFE!

And I'll see you around the Internet.

Lee Houston, Junior

2 March, 2025

PROGRESS REPORT: WEEK ENDING MARCH 1, 2020

I've been so busy working on my audition for a major publisher that I completely forgot to even post a PROGRESS REPORT this week!

OOPS! MY BAD!😮

In any event, my audition is in the initial editing stage now so as soon as it's ready and submitted, I WILL be getting back on what I left off before this started.

See you around the Internet!
Lee Houston, Junior
5 March, 2020

PROGRESS REPORT: WEEK ENDING MARCH 1, 2014

It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.

Charles Dickens' opening line from A Tale of Two Cities was certainly true in my case this past week.

ALPHA

With that short story commitment off to its publisher, I concentrated solely upon ALPHA, BOOK 2: WAYWARD SON.
Tweaked a few passages here, added some new words there.

With six complete chapters, over one-third of the finished manuscript, I was doing great until this dang cold struck Wednesday afternoon.

Now trust me folks, catching a cold was far below even the very last thing I wrote on my things to do list.
My nose is all stuffed up. My throat feels like sandpaper. My voice is hoarse and it feels like a herd of elephants is tap dancing on top of my head.

The more formal name for the common cold is the "Rhinovirus", according to Wikipedia. But seriously, does this look anything like a Rhino to you?

Rhinovirus cell, close up

It looks more like Tundro from Hanna-Barbera's The Herculoids to me!

Tundro, side view

Since then, about the only thing I've accomplished was honoring my Free Choice E-zine commitments over this weekend and posting my weekly progress report now.
Hopefully I will be back at the keyboard full time, if not at full capacity, within the next 24-48 hours.

Hugh Monn

There are a few handwritten notes I'd like to get more formally transcribed, and I would definitely like to get ALPHA 2 finished so I can begin work on the third volume in my HUGH MONN, PRIVATE DETECTIVE series!

But for now, all I can do is hope I don't run out of tissues and chicken soup, and see if I can at least teach those tap dancing elephants some choreography!

See you around the Internet!
Lee Houston, Junior
2 March, 2014

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