Ever have those dreams where an entire book downloads into your head at once and you know you’re dreaming and you actually think, “Oh, god, the whole book just downloaded,” but you know you’re not going to be able to hold on to it so you’re frantically trying to write it down except you’re trying to write it in the dream and the words keep changing so dammit you at least try to *dream* it really solidly so maybe some of it will stick and all you wake up with…
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Day Three: Triumphant!
Somewhere around noon today I realized that I was halfway done with this Writing Blitz, which cheered me up quite a bit. And now I’m 3/5ths done, and am feeling quite Blitzy! Had a bit of a panic when a scene that I hoped would take me through to the end of today’s wordcount didn’t, and left me 500 words shy. But I managed to get the next scene started, and made it to 5K. Furthermore, unless something goes horribly, horribly wrong, I have moved well past the 1/3rd mark.…
wow
It’s amazing how much better not-sick feels. Having shared that, I’m going to work now. :)
Day Two: Triumphant!
5006 words today. Not quite as splendid as yesterday’s 5300, but I don’t care: I broke 5K and that was the goal. And I broke 50K on the book, hooray! That (due to Sunday being unexpectedly prodigious) is 13.5K on the book this week. That’d be great even if it wasn’t only Tuesday! I’m sure there’s something else I ought to mention, but right now I got nothin’. So I’m gonna go make dinner and rot my brain on tv, instead of being in any fashion clever. :) ytd wordcount:…
magnificent woman
I can tell from thirty feet behind her that she’s neither Irish nor young, because neither the young nor the Irish dress with that much panache. She has so much thick blonde hair my first thought is that it has to be a weave or a wrap: it falls to the middle of her back, banded with three black loops, and that after it’s already been wrapped around itself to make a solid oval at the back of her head. It’s that particular shade of blonde that a handful of…