THE QUEEN’S BASTARD topped the Locus Bestseller trade paperback list for August 2008. How wonderful and surprising! How grateful I am to everybody who bought a copy of the book in May! (Which is when the list is compiled from, I do believe.) Well! Isn’t that a cheery bit of news! Don’t I feel more like writing now than I did twenty minutes ago! :)
WOOT
I have just reached THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND WORDS for the year. And now I am going to go watch the X-Files movie to celebrate! YAY! ytd wordcount: 300,100
attempting to psych myself up…
I got up a couple minutes after 7 and wandered in to my office to start writing. Felt drowsy and considered going back to bed. Then the garbage men came and I had to run and put the garbage out, and then I thought, well, maybe I just need some fuel, so I had breakfast and checked my email, and, well, now I’m blog posting and am not feeling especially interested in working on my book. I think I’ve entered the Novelist’s Event Horizon. I’ve got just a bit over…
a wash, or not
Today was, by all appearances, an utter wash. I slept really poorly and was too tired to think, so after sitting at the computer for an hour and writing 67 words (two of which were “CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE”), I went back to bed for two hours. I finally dragged myself back to the computer, not at all full of confidence, at a quarter after 3 this afternoon. I figured if I could get a thousand words done it’d be enough. Yesterday, after all, was a 6K day, so it’d even out…
mostly metrics
Ted and I started watching “Bones” a couple of days ago. He noticed right off that Bones herself falls into a proper martial arts finishing stance when she’s done kicking somebody’s ass. I noticed right off that Booth calls her “Bones” when he’s being casual or trying to annoy her, and “Temperence” when he’s pleased with her, and that she objects to being called “Bones” when she’s annoyed with *him*, but doesn’t seem to mind otherwise. We were both amused by these observations. :) Anyway, it’s better than I expected,…