*whirly eyes*

I went into Dublin Friday morning to catch the train to Belfast and had time for lunch, so I went to have lunch but the restaurant I went to completely ignored me, so after a while I got up and went away. On my way out, I saw a tattoos and body piercings place, and I’d been thinking of getting my left ear pierced again, so I went in and said I wanted my ear pierced and did they have gold studs. “We have zircon,” the girl said, or at…

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a brief update

I have, for some perfectly absurd reason, woken up at 20 after 6 today, and haven’t been able to go back to sleep. I thought I might as well write up a little journal entry in that case, since I doubt I’ll have a chance over the weekend. ‘s visit was perfectly splendid! Ted and I went up to Dublin to meet her, and while I went to the airport Ted went forth to have a gaming store accident. It absolutely failed, as nobody had any of the stuff he…

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Bestselling Author C.E. Murphy…

Just got email from . THUNDERBIRD FALLS is #3 on the Locus Trade Paperback Bestseller list for August. That, as my husband just said, doesn’t suck. *beams like an idiot*

all right…

I finished my latest chapter at 399 pages, and I’m calling that good enough. I have a week off now. I’m going to *revel* in it, demmit. …well. That appears to be all I have to say. :) miles to Isengard: 203 ytd wordcount: 264,700

441

I’ve just been hit by the MUST DO IT NOW urge to print out HOUSE OF CARDS and go back and do massive pacing restructuring. I suspect this is end-of-bookitis and is more indicative of not waaanting to fiiiiinish it because haven’t I done enooooogh aaaallllreeaaaddddyyyy than anything else. And I won’t really know until I’ve written several more (which may mean ‘all the rest of the’) chapters whether the pacing is going to *need* restructuring. I think it very well might. This, however, is not the time to do…

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