Day	What	How Much	Duration	Pen	Ink
24 October 25 October 26 October 27 October	First draft of “Discoveries in the Wake of the Last Crusade.” I can see the end, but can’t quite reach it… First draft of “Discoveries” concludes, followed by some prep for next month. Second draft commences.	Six manuscript pages. Six pages. Three pages. 935 words typed	45 min. 40 min. 25 min. 50 min.	Pilot Vanishing Point Sheaffer J5-30SC Parker 45 Pelikan P488	Pelikan Royal Blue Herbin Vert Empire Noodler’s Dumas Tulipe Noire Waterman Florida Blue

I had been having some trouble settling on the ending for the current project, having three viable but mutually incompatible possibilities.  Happily, I remembered over the weekend that in this brave new technological age of ours, one can have a story with different endings.  That “Choose Your Own Unspeakable Fate” thing I was working on last year (and am slowly putting into second draft, honest) is essentially just a bigger and more complex manifestation of the thing, but I even have a subscription to Sub-Q, a forum specifically intended for “interactive” texts.  Thus, when “Discoveries…” is ready to roll, I know exactly where I’ll be submitting it first.

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