PROGRESS REPORT: WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 11, 2025

 I'm posting a very familiar image with today's PROGRESS REPORT because once again, it has been one of those weeks.

Besides all the housework, errands and other personal matters that needed attending to; my short story was eliminated from the writing contest I submitted it to.

While disappointed, not a major problem. I have absolutely no idea how many actual entries there were and the apologetic email I received did say "competition was fierce".

Better luck next year.

Still trying to finish Chapter 4 of the HUGH  MONN, PRIVATE DETECTIVE prequel novel but a lot of other stuff that had to be dealt with kept getting in the way. 😕

But for those interested, there is absolutely NO AI in any of my stuff!

It is all 100% ME!

And that does take time.⌛

Hey, if DC Comics can announce they are and will remain AI free, figured I could and should make the same statement.

Yet if any AI would like to help me with all my housework, errands and other personal matters that need attending to so I have more time to write...

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

Take care.

STAY SAFE!

Have a great week and I'll see you around the Internet.

Lee Houston, Junior

12 October, 2025

PROGRESS REPORT: WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 11, 2014

Well folks, I truly wish I had more news to report than I actually do concerning ALPHA, BOOK 2: WAYWARD SON.

Picking up where I left off last week, Alpha will complete his first heroic mission on planet <???> in Chapter 9, and then Chapter 10 will deal with the aftermath.

Then Chapter 11 will cover the transition period between Alpha's first and second days upon this mysterious new world, whose name I keep hiding with <???>, as Act 2 of the novel begins.

But I'll also be honest with you.
I wish this novel was already done so I can go on to other writing projects.
Part of it is my own dang fault, concentrating so much upon short stories from January to the early Summer months.
Then there were some days that I honestly never had a say in the matter between life and other commitments. There have been times when it was just plain luck that I even got to the keyboard at all that day.


Yet I am still a firm believer in quality over quantity, and I will not just throw a bunch of words haphazardly into a manuscript and consider it a book.
YOU as the reader deserve the best possible work I can humanly create, and I shall give you no less.
Otherwise, I don't deserve your interest in my stories.

With that said. I better get back to work.
See you around the Internet.
Lee Houston, Junior
12 October, 2014