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.…
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…
reading, walking, gaming
We had gaming tonight, so I thought I’d take Chanti for a nice long walk today to wear her out. We walked about 4 miles, plus our mile-long walk this morning. She was pooped. :) By about two miles into the walk she’d sort of lost interest in trying to snuffle things and stuff and was just sort of going along doggedly. (Doggedly! Ahahahah! I’m so funny! o.o) Between walking and gaming I finally took some time to read Robert Buettner’s coming-of-age war novel ORPHANAGE. ORPHANAGE was one of the…