I finished the fifth chapter and passed ten thousand words on the new novel sometime during today's work, leaving only 60 to 70 k to go. Since I am still determined not to post snippets of the novel, or even reveal the title, because I promised not to, but since I am quite jealous of all of the enticing prose fragments the others are posting, for your oohs and ahs, I have decided to cheat just a bit and post one thing I didn't promise to forego -- a list of the chapter titles so far. Here they are:
Chapter One: In which we meet our hero and the fellows who might want to hire him.
Chapter Two: In which we determine to hold steadfast to the Bogey doctrine.
Chapter Three: In which we discover something about vampires and a passenger liner.
Chapter Four: In which we scout Indian country.
Chapter Five: In which we learn that Martin likes trains and alien invasions.
So there.
Never let it be said you lack an individual style, Bill. Seemingly descriptive but oh so vague and enticing...
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