I still like Raphael best. :) ytd wordcount: 60,100 miles to Dunharrow: 190
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a quick note
Been a nice day. Dad’s older sister is visiting, so Ted made us a luffly standing rib roast dinner (followed by a murderously good chocolate cake that he also made) last night, and we sat around talking until quite late, and today we went and looked at Cobh and then at Cork. :) Ted’s now off watching 300, and I’m going to do something not-computer-related as soon as I’m done posting this. Mostly I’m posting because last year I was asked to consider doing a cover quote for Lisa Shearin‘s…
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My little girl with the Irish flag photo got picked for Saturday’s ! *beam* Hm. Apparently anything meaningful I was going to say got lost in the clutter of doing housework and other such things. Oh well! miles to Dunharrow: 183 ytd wordcount: 59,000
revision letters. pah.
There’s nothing like a revision letter to make you feel like you can’t write. Yes, yes, I know I rather demonstratively *can* write, and I don’t need any reassurances on the subject, it’s just that revision letters always make me feel like I might as well just fling the book into a pit and myself after it, since obviously I’m incapable of communicating what I was trying and the story is a failure and so on and so forth, even when the revisions are really fairly minor, dealing almost exclusively…
worky worky work
Today was Fair Trade Day. There were four of us volunteering, and almost no business, so the shop looks *very* tidy and attractive now. :) On the train on the way in, the first bits of a story-ish thing that I’ve had vague plans to do something with popped into my head, so when I came home, instead of working on HoCH, I wrote 1500 words of storybits: I was a plain child, although I did not know it at the time. It is only now, looking back at daguerreotypes…