An efficient night -- Chapter Five is now done. When I started this I thought I'd be lucky to do a page a night, not whole chapters. I'm pleased, but I fear the point next week when I lose momentum and I have to actually come up with not only an ending, but how to get my story there.
Our hero, the intrepid space cowboy Boston Thomas, has arrived on Burrell's World. It was discovered five hundred years ago by spaceman artist W.T. Burrell, who plotted a re-entry course through the planet's atmosphere that, when the unique gases of the planet combined with the exhaust trail of his first-generation ion thrusters, it left colorful streaks across the sky that constantly evolved with the planet's weather. Burrell died in the process, but created what was considered the galaxy's greatest masterpiece of celestial art which was enjoyed for four hundred years. That is until the Wal-Martian empire decided to terraform the planet and make it a 24-hour Superplanetary Shopping Center.
Word count: 9,802.
1 comment:
That's awesome. Can't wait 'til you make it to Alpha 2.
Don't quit next week. You OWE it to me to see it through.
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