go go gadget writer!

I got up at 10 to 7 this morning and was writing by 7:05. 4300 words in about 4 hours, two chapters, and the THUNDERBIRD FALLS manuscript is now complete at 437 pages and 99,735 actual words. I have some rewriting to do and about five scenes I’d like to add, but the major revisions are DONE DONE DONE! Just in time for me to launch into writing FIREBIRD DECEPTION in April. :) Have an article to write tonight and if I’m feeling very awesome maybe I’ll do some of…

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things of note

things of note today: 1. wrote 3500 words 2. friend got manuscript request 3. sister moved to ireland ytd wordcount: 71,500

note to self

Note to self: just because you *make* 5 cups of (popped) popcorn does not mean you need to *eat* 5 cups of popcorn. Further note to self: perhaps you should make much smaller batches of popcorn in the future. miles to Rauros Falls: 101.5

whew.

All right. Chapter done. Whew. 2800 words. This next chapter’s the big fight scene, then there’s wrap-up. Slightly possible the big fight scene will take two chapters. Either way it’s going pretty good and the end’s in sight. I should start going through the earlier stuff and getting rid of the bad bits that are still in there, in preparation for writing the half a dozen new scenes I want to put in, but I donno, we’ll see if I feel like it in a while. I feel all twitchy.…

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weekend upcatch

The words are not flowing easily today. They’re coming, but not easily. I’m having a hard time writing journal entries these days because I come sit down at the computer and I talk to people and my brain just can’t do more than one thing at time, apparently. Jai and I went out on Saturday evening. *gasp* We went out to Cafe Savannah, which turned out to be the tapas restaurant that Ted and I keep saying we need to try. It was very, very good, and we had a…

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