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leahbobetJanuary 8, 2008 Progress Notes:
Above
Words today: 750.
Words total: 17,250 MS Word.
Reason for stopping: Quota, were I doing the quota thing. And I need to figure out some logistics and motivations.
Liquid Refreshment: French vanilla hot chocolate.
Munchies: Grilled cheese sammiches around 4:30. Of course, now that I have all the food in the world, I'm not at all hungry.
Exercise: An hour's walking -- class and back, and errands.
Mail: Contracts from Strange Horizons, and countersigned contracts from The Mammoth Book of Extreme Fantasy.
Darling du Jour: I bought her peaches. A whole basket. Not stolen either, but bought proper, and every single one fat and sweet and kitten-soft against your mouth before you bit down. We went out into the old sewers and found a corner where it was almost fallen in, where two could huddle in close and warm without being spotted. And we ate every single one.
(Write-ahead this time, from the last chapter. Oh, that makes me want to cry.)
Tyop du Jour: N/A
Words MS Word Doesn't Know: N/A
Mean Things: Letting go. Getting lost. Trying to game the system and it not really working.
Research Roundup: Isolation guidelines in Ontario psych wards, circa 1982.
Books in progress: Stephen King, The Waste Lands; the Lattimore translation of The Odyssey; Wallace Stevens, Collected Poems.
The glamour: A lot today, actually. Workshop work, reading five books of The Odyssey, signing contracts and mailing them back, taking things to the bank, and filling out a bit of grocery holes as I desired a sammich. I finally have that bread, and I have a new 10-pound bag of rice. I am now stocked for seven apocalypses. The bag of rice alone is worth a whole apocalypse.
It's grey out, and rainy. It was evening all afternoon.
I'm pretty much discontinuing the Novel in 90-meter right now. I've only looked at half my course syllabi for this semester, and...yeah. I have no desire to Run Mad (or Amok). Let's do one thing at a time, maybe.
More reviews (are you sick of these yet? *g*) coming down the pipe:
Rich Horton likes "The Sorceress's Assistant", and gives it mention in his On Spec summary. And it's another "strong work from" in the Fantasy Magazine summary.
Crash Launching, a new review blog, dubs "Bears" a cool new thing and says other things about it to Make Authors Happy.
"The Girl From Another World" has readers in Singapore. Which is awesome.
Also, your moment of No Shit:
Above
Words today: 750.
Words total: 17,250 MS Word.
Reason for stopping: Quota, were I doing the quota thing. And I need to figure out some logistics and motivations.
Liquid Refreshment: French vanilla hot chocolate.
Munchies: Grilled cheese sammiches around 4:30. Of course, now that I have all the food in the world, I'm not at all hungry.
Exercise: An hour's walking -- class and back, and errands.
Mail: Contracts from Strange Horizons, and countersigned contracts from The Mammoth Book of Extreme Fantasy.
Darling du Jour: I bought her peaches. A whole basket. Not stolen either, but bought proper, and every single one fat and sweet and kitten-soft against your mouth before you bit down. We went out into the old sewers and found a corner where it was almost fallen in, where two could huddle in close and warm without being spotted. And we ate every single one.
(Write-ahead this time, from the last chapter. Oh, that makes me want to cry.)
Tyop du Jour: N/A
Words MS Word Doesn't Know: N/A
Mean Things: Letting go. Getting lost. Trying to game the system and it not really working.
Research Roundup: Isolation guidelines in Ontario psych wards, circa 1982.
Books in progress: Stephen King, The Waste Lands; the Lattimore translation of The Odyssey; Wallace Stevens, Collected Poems.
The glamour: A lot today, actually. Workshop work, reading five books of The Odyssey, signing contracts and mailing them back, taking things to the bank, and filling out a bit of grocery holes as I desired a sammich. I finally have that bread, and I have a new 10-pound bag of rice. I am now stocked for seven apocalypses. The bag of rice alone is worth a whole apocalypse.
It's grey out, and rainy. It was evening all afternoon.
I'm pretty much discontinuing the Novel in 90-meter right now. I've only looked at half my course syllabi for this semester, and...yeah. I have no desire to Run Mad (or Amok). Let's do one thing at a time, maybe.
More reviews (are you sick of these yet? *g*) coming down the pipe:
Rich Horton likes "The Sorceress's Assistant", and gives it mention in his On Spec summary. And it's another "strong work from" in the Fantasy Magazine summary.
Crash Launching, a new review blog, dubs "Bears" a cool new thing and says other things about it to Make Authors Happy.
"The Girl From Another World" has readers in Singapore. Which is awesome.
Also, your moment of No Shit:
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