Jeri Smith-Ready, a fellow Luna author, reached the 300K wordcount goal for 2007 that I fell a bit short of. We were discussing it in her comments and she said, “Yeah, but you wrote 400K in 2006, right?” And yeah, I had. And then out of curiosity I went and looked up the wordcounts I’d achieved over the last five years. 250K in 2003. 305K in 2004. 300K or so in 2005. 400K in 2006. 269K in 2007. That’s a million and a half words. 1,524,000, to be more or…
fan mail
I got fan mail this morning. There are nicer ways to start off a day, but not many. :) It was posted to an old “currently working on” tagged entry, and that reminded me I hadn’t done one of those entries for…ages. :) So I thought I’d do one before I went to work, because, as you know Bob, it’s better to do aaaaaaaanything else than go to work. :) January 2008 (200*8*!) WiP: Writing: THE PRETENDER’S CROWN (Inheritors’ Cycle, Book II) Revising: THE PRETENDER’S CROWN proposal (turning in tomorrow,…
and, at the end of the day…
Actually, at the end of the day (which it very nearly literally is), I *did* make a lovely dinner, did a fair bit of triage on the office, which has only half as many boxes in it as it did this morning, got some more laundry done than what Ted started, got the kitchen sort of clean, *and* I got 1300 words written. Oh, God, and I just popped my back and it popped in exactly the same place it did this morning when it went out, and I think…
aaah, the new year…
Aaah, the new year, in which (whether one admits it aloud or not) one has the best of intentions: Tomorrow, one secretly promises oneself on New Year’s Eve, I shall get up early, eat a sensible breakfast, clean the office, write five thousand words of heartbreaking genius, make a loaf of bread, clean the kitchen, do laundry, go to the gym, make a lovely dinner, and have a pleasant, relaxing evening after studying Spanish and the tin whistle for half an hour each. And that will be the shape of…
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!
2008 has arrived safely here in Cork, Ireland, and I should say judging from the fireworks and cheers that it’ll be a good and welcome year for all! *raises a glass and beams all around*!