Dublin and the NISFA meeting were grand. Seeing the family was grand. Falling down the bus stairs when the driver accelerated and braked both very hard in very short succession and jamming the holy living shit out of my right pinky and ring finger was not so grand. Both fingers are, on the palm side, purple and black from the top knuckle to the palm. This is with being coated in magic-bruise-reducing arnica since half an hour after it happened. :p They look like hell. They don’t hurt much,–they’re mostly…
quick note before bed
Ellen Million, who rocks, has scanned a couple of short stories I wrote in college and sent me copies of them, ’cause one, at least, I’m sure I don’t have. That one is a Beauty and the Beast story which, to the best of my own recollection, is a huge rip-off of Robin McKinley’s BEAUTY, except, like, written my way. :) So I’ll be reading both of those stories with fascinated trepidation sometime here soon… Realised this evening that the smart thing to do was take the synopsis for Chance…
thinks to do
I chased Lucy off the table, where she’d crawled sneakily (first the chair, then my lap, then over my arm to the table, and surprisingly, it *was* sneaky: it took me a moment to realise what she’d done!) and so now she’s gone to the other end of the room and is sitting Very Precisely atop the stereo in the deep window and staring accusingly at me. :) This week is far less of a Writing Blitz. Only aiming for 2K a day, in large part because I’m going to…
new hair!
I gots new hairs! And they are awesome! *smug*
Day Five: I Rule The World
When I reached 5K today and added up my wordcount for the week, I discovered that with one thing and another, I had written 28,907 words since Sunday. 28,907 is awfully close to a nice round 30,000. And it was slightly before 5pm. “Shit,” I said, and went and wrote another 1100 words so that they wouldn’t be hanging around haunting me tomorrow, which is supposed to be My Day Off. And now it is 6pm, and I have written thirty thousand words this week, and god damn if I…