Camp NaNoWriMo update

[silver_sun]

It's been a few days since I did my last camp nanowrimo update, so this is how I'm getting on. 42k written and I'm on track for having my 50k by the end of Friday. 

Everything is backed up. So a file on the lap top, on the external hard drive, on a cloud drive and on google docs. I'm taking no chances on losing it. 

Aiming for about 43k by the end of tonight. Which will give me 4 days for the remaining 7k or so, so there no last minute rush. 

I'm mainly at the point of going back to previous sections and adding bits that I'd left until later. (either because my brain when blank at that part a few days ago or I knew that would actually be a fun section to write so I'd save it as something that I knew I could get a good number of easy words out of it later - like the night attack on the bridge, and first sighting of the airships.)

Anyway back to writing for a little while before I have to start thinking about cooking tea. 

On the highest point of the city's southern walls stood the new semaphore tower. The ungainly X of the twin set of crossed metal arms with their multiple, blown glass gas lamp hoods running along their length, made it look like some kind nightmarish windmill. 

It had been a race to perfect the design for a semaphore system that could be used both day and night, and a Thaabian, Elmet Andali, had succeeded in creating the first fulling function, night operable semaphore. The new radiant arm semaphores had, in the following few years, almost completely replaced the six shutter system that had been in use for the previous ten.

It amazed Sarpedon how quickly these new inventions were being made. Some times he thought that if a man looked away for too long the whole world might not look the same by the time he turned back.

Despite what he'd told Hagan about not seeing the need for some of the new technologies he could see the use of the semaphores. Communications that had once taken days, if not weeks to get where they were going now travelled as fast as each of the towers operators could receive the message and relay it on to the next tower.