Now I want spirits to enforce, art to enchant...

January 30, 2010 Progress Notes:

Untitled Shadow Unit DVD Extra

Words today: 1250.
Words total: 1250.
Reason for stopping: Draft.

Books in progress: Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest.
The glamour: Redying my hair (aka: Bathtub Smurf Massacre), workshop work, Ideo work, a bit of groceries, and the making of a maple bread. Okay, and I played a lot of Beyond Good and Evil. Bite me. It's Saturday.

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Not a lot to say this evening. I am torn between being unspeakably annoyed by the MacMillan/Amazon thing and its general needlessness, the General Winter Fatigue, and immense flattery over kelljones's review-slash-discussion of "The Parable of the Shower". kelljones is one of the more astute and careful readers I'm acquainted with. When she talks about a book, I listen. So I'm feeling kind of terrifically complimented about that.

All this adds up to a vague unbalancedness. Which I think I am going to take to bed, in hopes of knocking another of these DVD extras off my to do list tomorrow.

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January 31, 2010 Progress Notes:

"On the Art of Rebuilding"

Words today: 750.
Words total: 750.
Reason for stopping: Draft.

Books in progress: Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye.
The glamour: So far, not a hell of a lot. But the water was out again this morning (whee) and so necessary things got delayed.

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Well, these things at least are trucking right along. I may be able to churn out my year's commitment of DVD extras on the way to getting unstuck on all the other stuff. Which would be good, because that'd be something off the 2010 Writing To Do List, a list which now has three sections: Now, Mandatory Later, and Don't Even Look At It.

No, I'm not kidding.

Okay, dishes now that the water's back on, and then on to the next...

God speed your love to me.

January 31, 2010 Progress Notes:

"Rites of Passage"

Words today: 700.
Words total: 700.
Reason for stopping: Draft.

Books in progress: Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye.
The glamour: Hah! I did my dishes! And set up some more Ideomancer stuff, and made salvage of this day a little bit. Although I still would please like one more day of weekend. It took me a while to get started, this week.

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This is apparently the weekend I set up all my SU DVD extra obligations and then knock them down like it's ten-pin. This is good. I haven't been feeling particularly accomplished or Like a Writer in a little while here. And I'll be perfectly happy to keep knocking these things out until I run out if it'll get my brain producing verbiage again.

Maybe I'll go noodle at another one. Or if not, there's always knitting and Full Metal Challenge...