Progress Report 40

Got a few more chapters done since my last post.  I have been super distracted lately, so I am struggling a bit.  Not to worry, though, the novel is still pumping along.  The latest chapter has police bribes, a brand new pair of roller skates, economic satire galore, and a student housing ghetto.  I even managed to pack in some action.  Call the visual effects department in you brain and tell them begin work on the CGI scenes in my upcoming novel, Normal Heroes.  A big budget block buster of a story that will only cost about a nickel a chapter.  How cool is that?

new grand total word count - 133,551

Granted, I had to make up a few. Have a preview:

niid - the National Identification Information and Designation card.  If you don't have one, you are well and truly humped.

FITDs - Spam attached to business correspondence, short for "foot in the doors."  A way for modern businesses to profit from the captive demographic of employees.

igg or igby - short for "in game girlfriend/boyfriend."  A common relationship model in the year 2040.

USDFDATFP - the United States Department of Food, Drugs, Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Pornography, government downsizing makes for strange bedfellows.

Learn these useful words and more, when you read my forthcoming guide on how to live in an all too familiar near future America, Normal Heroes.