small triumphs

I turned out to lack the enthusiasm to watch a movie (how is that even /possible/?) and have spent a while dorking around with Photoshop and working to convert a few more pictures into kitsnaps format. In so doing, I managed to finally find the right combination of PS tools to turn a couple of old photos into what I always thought they /should/ look like, or much closer to it, so behind the cut are two photographs from Athy, Ireland, in January 2006, immediately after I got my Nikon…

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whew.

I accidentally* walked eight and a half miles today. I’m completely wiped out. However, the errands are all done and all the Strongbox Chronicles are in the mail to their new owners. The poor man at the post office was a bit boggled when we kept taking more and more envelopes out of the bags. :) And…I was gonna maybe go to a movie tonight, but I’ve already walked all over hell and breakfast, so I think I’ll stay home and watch Hunt for Red October. The Road Home: miles…

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*thud*

WAYFINDER is done in rough draft form, coming in at 101.5K. I’m taking the rest of today and tomorrow off, and will fling myself into hairy nasty horrible revisions on Thursday morning, the better to have them completed by (ideally) close of business on Friday so I can have the weekend off before starting another book. Yeah, no, sorry, that’s as much as I got. I’m gonna go blow spit bubbles now or something… The Road Home: miles to Isengard: 126.3 ytd wordcount: 73,200 ytd km swum: 23.5

Surrender The Manuscript

Too early (or too late) for most warriors to be around, so in a desperate attempt to get the book done today, I will be warring with myself on the blog until either I’m done or people show up in the war room. Starting NOW. war #1: 744 war #2: 472, plus a nap. oop. Lunch now, & that’s all for the blog wars, warriors in the room to support me…

my bwaaaaiiiin….

I wrote the end of the book today. Sadly, I didn’t write all the bits leading up to the end of the book, but another 4500 word day tomorrow like today was and I ought to be pretty much done. Then Wednesday is full of errands and I can do revisions Thursday and Friday and turn it in. Then I get to take the weekend off and start all over again on Monday with SPIRIT DANCES. *headdesk* The Road Home: miles to Isengard: 123.9 ytd wordcount: 71,300 ytd km swum:…

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