good news/bad news

The good news is, the book is done! 77.3K, and I’ll probably add a bit more when I do revisions. The bad news is, the duplexer on the new printer didn’t work all that well, and skipped a page around page 80, so by the time I got done printing the first half of the manuscript, it was pretty much all buggered up. So I ended up printing the second half single-sided, and the second quarter is going to suck a lot to edit bcause I’m going to have to…

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lj interests meme

Gacked from , but I proved too lazy to answer more than the first five. Maybe I’ll do the other ones later. Having been this lazy, I think it’s a sign it’s time to write, ’cause hey, if you’re too lazy to flick thoroughly… LJ Interests meme results biking:I like to bike. :) I’m trying to get up the nerve to bike in Ireland, where there are few sidewalks, no road shoulders, and a lot of crazy drivers. If I manage to develop the nerve, that’ll pretty much obliterate any…

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flick! flick! flick your workload!

I am flicking so very very hard this morning. I have spent an egregious amount of time making my work schedule pretty. *laugh* I have spent time adding up the numbers of what I’ve got planned, to see what kind of wordcount I’m talking about, and dividing those great big numbers by numbers of reasonably-expected working days to see how many words a day I have to write to achieve those great big numbers. I have made nice tidy columns of schedules. Working Schedules, which are called Actual Schedules because…

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thank heavens

I’m a few words from finishing chapter 25, and it’s pretty clear to me that chapter 26 will be the last. Then the epilogue, and I’m done. I’ll be able to finish this tomorrow. I would like to take a moment to give thanks to whatever many-tentacled deity is listening. *collapses* It has not been a hard run, as far as books go. Part of it is the small amount of down time during the writing of the book. I did the proposal last year, but I’ve written everything else…

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oh, sod it

I believe I’m coming to terms with my fate and accepting I’m not gonna write any more than 2200 words today. 2200 isn’t at all bad, but it’s not even a whole chapter, so that’s sort of a bother. But Ted and I went into Cork to try to deliver ‘s book, only she had the nerve to leave work early when I hadn’t, like, warned her we were coming or anything. Sheesh. Of all the thoughtless things… :) So since we were in Cork, Ted and I went to…

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