Writing Update: 14-02-25 (Patreon)

Change: +7,041

Year-to-date: 31,683

Working through some of the thorny bits nearing the end of Chapter 8 has sapped some of the writing momentum from this week, as did a twelve-hour work day yesterday--by the time I was able to turn to the keyboard, I was too tired to produce anything more than a few hundred words. Overall though, I've kept to the target and progress is good. For whatever reason, this year I'm finding I can even hit that golden 2000 word daily target about once a week. I'll probably need a little break soon, but for now I'm really enjoying the feeling of progress even if, as I posted on Wednesday, the chapter's gotten a little out of hand.

Hopefully, readers are happy with the current direction (or digression) of the story. In the absence of feedback, I'll take the fact people aren't cancelling their memberships as tacit approval of David's current adventures in kinky play and housewife performance?

Meanwhile, I've got a strange little poll for you. As I look backwards with an eye on revising the earliest chapters of Constant, I'm considering ways of making the world-building a little more coherent. One small detail that readers might have noticed is that I've gone metric in the story's measurements: character height and weight in centimeters and kilograms, heel height and bra strap sizes, too. I made that decision awhile back, imagining a crazy sci-fi future where the ambiguously-American setting of the story went metric.

Constant is set about thirty years in the future. Putting aside the possibility of the republic imploding or anything like that, do you think the USA could or would ever go metric? And I mean for the average person on the street - not in labs or scientific institutes or anything like that, but for the day-to-day thinking of civilians driving to work, putting up shelves, buying shoes, thinking about dieting.

Vote in the poll below: