10.399

Couldn’t resist. Had to hit the 10K mark twice in two days. Grand total for the day: 10,399 words. Grand total for two days: 20,617. Pages written: uh, 89. (Jesus.) Chapters left: 2.3. Number of pages left: 31. Amount of story left: about the same. I think. Amount of brain left: more than expected. ytd wordcount: 272,500

6 chapters down, 3 to go

6 chapters down, 3 to go. 8500 words so far today. I may sit down and write another 1500 later, just to make it a nice even 10K, but I hit my actual goal of finishing up through chapter 6, so I’m very satisfied. I am on track to shatter my current most-words-written-in-3-days record, which stands (and has stood since 1998) at 24,000 words. I expect this to come in at 27K, and I anticipate being done tomorrow. I anticipate falling over dead after that. :) Actually, I’m feeling incredibly…

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mmm, highlander

Mmm, Highlander. Mmm, Adrian Paul. Mmm. See, my reward for doing my writing is supposed to be watching 2 episodes of Highlander. This usually only happens from about September to March, on (theoretically, anyway) Saturday nights, unless something else comes up (which often happens) so a season lasts quite a long time. For example, I’ve been watching season 2 since, erm, last September, I think. Tonight I figured that 10K in a day was definetely Highlander-worthy, and I sat down to watch a couple of episodes toward the end of…

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