Mnnghg. Sleepy. Went forth this morning to walk, but it was two particular kinds of unpleasant, so I only did a mile and a smidge. But it cleared up this arternoon, so we walked to the store to buy milk and packing tape, so I did about four miles today despite myself. Seeepy. I even wrote a tiny bit today! 1600 words, which is a far cry from the 20 pages I was touting earlier, but hell, I wrote, which is something, at least. :) Regarding a 2-week challenge: I…
a challenge
Michele Hauf‘s just finishing up a challenge she and a friend are doing: rough draft their books in 10 days. Gail Dayton is doing a 20 pages a day for two weeks challenge. Anybody wanna join me in something similar? The next book up for me is HANDS OF CHANGE, the third and final book in the Old Races Negotiator trilogy. It’s supposed to come in around 125K, so no way am I going to do a draft in 10 days (12K a day for 10 days? I’d spend the…
reading
I used to like reading big fat books. The bigger and fatter the book the better, because it took me that much longer to read it. I deliberately picked up WISHSONG OF SHANNARA when I was 12 and we were driving up the California coast, because my parents told me, “Find the biggest book you can,” and it was not only big depth-wise, but it was also trade paperback, making it definitely the biggest book I could find in the SF section at the time*. Not so anymore. I’m reading…
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The intarweb tubes have lost their suction today. That’s okay. Instead of dorking around on the computer, I’m alternating between walking, reading, and watching s8 SG:1. This is a pretty good way to spend the day. :) Overall, this season is not as good as the last, er, seven. One of the things I like about SG:1 is that it’s not brilliant television, but it’s damned consistent television full of delightful character moments that rises occasionally to great and more rarely dips to adequate or bad. Sadly, s8 is running…
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tells it like it is. :) miles to Dunharrow: 42