Here’s today’s progress on the alternate-history battlefield adventure about a widowed nurse from a Confederate hospital aboard a west-bound train pulled by a Union war engine — now with military intrigue, steampunk Texas rangers, undead political separatists, murderous plots, bushwackers, bandits, sabotage, and epic scenes of mayhem:

Project: Dreadnought

New Words: 3834 (huzzah!)

Present Total Word Count: 61,668 words

Goal: 120,000 words (revised goal)

Things Accomplished in Fiction: All aboard