But my mind holds the key.

November 2, 2011 Progress Notes:

"Five Autopsies"

Words today: 450.
Words total: 1200.
Reason for stopping: Bedtime for work nights.

Books in progress: Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science-Fictional Universe.

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Not as fall-into-bed tired today, thankfully. Things actually got done when I got home: the picking up of the CSA, and a load of laundry, and the making of duck egg eggnog and potato-leek soup and fried rice with mushrooms and leeks and withered dark greens of some sort in it.

The soup pretty much went straight to the freezer. There are only two weeks left of CSA. I have to freeze things while the freezing's good, so I don't die of scurvy come January.

More words -- and probably more cooking -- tomorrow. For some reason, I have that urge to order this week: maybe it's all those hostel and hotel rooms, clean and tidy.

News and reviews.

November 3, 2011 Progress Notes:

"Five Autopsies"

Words today: 300.
Words total: 1500.
Reason for stopping: Sleepy.

Books in progress: Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science-Fictional Universe.

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Not exactly the most kickass of writing nights, but I am strangely tired. And several author-duty things came up that needed immediate attention, so most of my evening went thataway.

Above is starting to get some more prepub reviews (yes, I am fiendishly tracking comment with the unstoppable power of...GoogleAlerts):

Here's one from A Million Words, which says very nice things.

It has been a while since I read a book this lyrical. Seeing through Matthew's eyes, thinking his thoughts--I could almost believe that Safe is real. The prose is lovely, round, and vivid; at times it felt like poetry. At other times it felt like a painting come to life.

And here's Britt Leigh using it as a jumping-off point for some thoughts on diversity in fiction. Which is calming, to see someone saying that you did it passably right.

I don't know if I'm going to reliably blog reviews for this book: I do it for short stories, yes, but that's a bit of a different beast -- a much less contentious one, in some respects! -- and the volumes are much different. I guess for now, while they're still thin on the ground, I'll note them? But we'll see how things go later on?

In any case, if you want to weigh in with preferences as to that, this is the place.