New Novel Progress: a bit part, but a memorable one.

In an effort to cleverly segue from yesterday's Fun Day post into the more serious weekday stuff, there will be a brief excerpt from the new novel from late in Chapter 4, below.

But first, a progress report. Chapter 5 is in to Edit, although it immediately got marked as "good dialogue; needs more descriptions". Chapter 6 is underway and good progress is being made there. I'll bundle it off in the next day or two, then dive back to expand 5 appropriately before pressing on. Milestone for this week is Chapter 7 in to Edit by the coming weekend. That would be 1/3 of the novel in rough draft form if I hit that. Note however that rough draft is still a long way from ready to go to print with. Editing can take 3x as long as writing, easily.

Anyway...

Since yesterday was about building an intermediate cover, albeit as a game for readers to try, it seemed fitting to mention who actually approved builds of intermediate covers for the "disposable" operatives of The Project. Here's an excerpt about her. The "he" at the start is the Mission Planner, Dean Conway. The candidate for the Two slot on the mission is our returning character from Remember When:


He sent word over to the office that actually saw to the care and feeding of the “disposables” about this, and the office boss there took it over for the interim. She was called The Librarian by everyone, although never to her face. Her role was to make sure all the intermediate covers were as solid as they could be, and that the operatives wore them seamlessly. It had been her call regarding the Two-slot candidate’s last intermediate cover getting the ol’ 86, and her budget took the hit for building a new one.


Enjoy!