For Marith, a list of ten, or something like it, favorite first lines of fiction: 1. “It was a dark and stormy night.” — A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeline L’Engle 2. “Mrs. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies’ eardrops and traversed by a brook that had its source away back in the woods of the old Cuthbert place; it was reputed to be an intricate, headlong brook in its earlier course through those woods, with…
Author: mizkit
wordses
Going to a movie later this afternoon, so I’m going to assume I’m done with writing for the day. I could be wrong, but that’s what I’ll assume. 2030 words, which ain’t bad. 50K in 30 days: 26,380 ytd wordcount: 45,090
words today
Not a bad writing day, in the end. 2010 words, which is better than a kick in the teeth. Starting to approach the real meat of the story with HoS, so that’s good. Only another sixty thousand or so words to go. o.O 50K in 30 days (day 15): 24,340 ytd wordcount: 43,060
whew. :)
Whew. :) Spent a big old chunk of the day redesigning cemurphy.net, which works on NS7 and IE6 (and presumably IE5 although I don’t have it anymore), which doesn’t work on Opera (the layers are screwed up) and which looks like an abstract cubist painting on NS4. I’ll probably have to put up a bare bones version, but not today. I also have to finish the redesign, which is currently only on the top page, but I am, anyway, very pleased with it. Have sent chapters to Jim. Should write…
thinks to do
Thinks to do today: 1. send Jim the first 50 pages of US 2. write 1700 words 3. swim thinks to do over the weekend: 4. start putting together query packages 5. write a synopsis for HoS 6. write a synopsis for Angles 7. get Clarion app together 8. get Viable Paradise app together 9. maybe see if Ted can dig out some comics so I can do a bit of work on HoC 10. gym Boy, *this* is an exciting entry, isn’t it? :)