Gauntlet update

For those following the First Clarion South Class of 2007 Gauntlet action from the edge of their seats, here is the status of my various Gauntlet (and non-Gauntlet) projects.

• Gauntlet Story 1 ("Degredado"): nearly 800 words drafted.
  
• Gauntlet Story 2 ("Zork Goes Home"): 2,100 words drafted.
  
• Gauntlet Story 3 ("Mertrude, Please"): more than 100 (yes, one hundred, not one thousand) words drafted.
  
• NaNo Opus Mud and Glass (to be submitted to the Orbit/Queensland Writers' Centre Script Development Program): 50,000 words out of a targeted 90,000 drafted.
  
• (Non-spec) novel The Associates complete at 80,000 words; revisions begun but on hold until after Christmas.
  
• Full-length play-in-progress: 19 pages (out of a targeted 120) drafted.

All this is partly to encourage myself — and partly to distract myself from the wracking wait for the Short & Sweet final selection, the reception of two rejections in one day, and the demoralizing persistence of this wretched head cold.

The tiger has eyes. Or rather, eye. The fists are of steel.