I have the very best husband. Thanks, Ted, for bringing in the good paper from the car for me this morning. *beam* Thinks to do today: 1. write 1700 words 2. swim 2500 yards 3. print S&3 for Tor 4. clean the kitty litter 5. clean the dog pen (do I know how to have fun, or what?) 6. write HoS synopsis 7. call H&R Block for taxes appt.

Quiet day. I re-read The Blue Sword and The Hero and the Crown. I still adore both of those books unconditionally. *Man*. I don’t know how many times I’ve read them, but I could read them a hundred more times and still love them. It’d be good to write books like that. :)

For Marith, a list of ten, or something like it, favorite first lines of fiction: 1. “It was a dark and stormy night.” — A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeline L’Engle 2. “Mrs. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies’ eardrops and traversed by a brook that had its source away back in the woods of the old Cuthbert place; it was reputed to be an intricate, headlong brook in its earlier course through those woods, with…

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Going to a movie later this afternoon, so I’m going to assume I’m done with writing for the day. I could be wrong, but that’s what I’ll assume. 2030 words, which ain’t bad. 50K in 30 days: 26,380 ytd wordcount: 45,090

Not a bad writing day, in the end. 2010 words, which is better than a kick in the teeth. Starting to approach the real meat of the story with HoS, so that’s good. Only another sixty thousand or so words to go. o.O 50K in 30 days (day 15): 24,340 ytd wordcount: 43,060