don juan triumphant!

Don Juan triumphant! 6100 words today, *FIVE* chapters written wholesale and a sixth one finished, and one more chapter and I’ll be finished with the first third of the book. I am SOOOOOOOO smug! 16,400 words as an approximate total at the moment, , so if I in fact write three parts of generally equal length, I’ll come up with a 53K word book. At the moment, I’m suspecting it’s going to be around 40-45 chapters with an average chapter length around 1300-1350 words, which puts me somewhere between 52…

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ehehehe.

I got up at 8:20 this morning and was writing by 10 after 9. Between the hours of 9 and 3, I wrote 4500 words. Then I went swimming (a measly 1500 yards, but I realized around 1100 yards that I was probably so tired because I hadn’t eaten since breakfast at 11), and then we went and had dinner with our friend Dale who had a layover on his way to Fairbanks. It’s been something like 3 years since we saw Dale, so that was very nice! And now…

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oop.

Oop. I had a little bookstore accident. But it hardly counts at all, ’cause it was at Title Wave, where we have credit! Somewhat less credit now than we had an hour ago, I admit… I have: Murder on Astor Place, a murder mystery by Victoria Thompson, and Never After, a cute-looking fantasy novel by Rebecca Lickiss. What a name. That wasn’t so much the accident part. The accident part more comes in the form of the five trade paperbacks I bought: Tigana, ’cause I can’t find it in hardbound,…

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poppings and lunchings

We went over to the chiro to give them a copy of my insurance card, and while I was there I got popped, because my right shoulder has been really hurting lately, and I explained more precisely to Dr. Woody where the pain was, and he said oh! and popped me a whole different way (he had me stand up against a padded wall (I need no comments from the peanut gallery, thank you) and put my feet out and scootch down a bit so my knees were bent, and…

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