leahbobet | Thud: Above

June 16, 2008 Progress Notes:

Above

Words today: 1000.
Words total: 49,500 MS Word, 60,750 SMF.

60,750 / 85,000
(71.5%)

Reason for stopping: Round number. Bed.
Liquid Refreshment: Iced lemon blossom tea.
Munchies: A bit of pasta. I need to do some serious groceries.

Darling du Jour: So Doctor Marybeth brings the files and I try to look at them, try to read the tiny biting hand that talks 'bout medicine and meetings and all the other things Whitecoats do to keep you hushed and swaddled.

Words Matthew Won't Admit to Knowing: vulnerable again. He hates that word. It makes him shudder.
Mean Things: Violence. Yours.
Research Roundup: N/A
Books in progress: Susan Beth Pfeiffer, Life As We Knew It; textbooks, but we're in the final stretch of that.
The glamour: I spent most of today hacking together my Shakespeare term paper and cleaning up other people's vitriol. Good thing for me I'm getting a new computer to brighten that up.

I've upped the total wordcount to 85,000. There's no way I'm wrapping this up inside 20,000 words. Maybe not inside 25,000 either, but we'll reevaluate as we get closer.

I only really started working tonight because

ringwoodcomics mentioned listening to Ghosts, and I have myself so Pavlovian trained on my writing triggers that even the mention of this album, never mind putting it on, gets me in the right frame of mind to work on this book. I'm glad I did, though. After the sheer amount of shit I waded through today, I deserved a few hours of candlelight, quiet music, and my book.

It's tightened up more. The lines are closing, and more than I thought, since something I thought was a gap in a scene really just needed one linking sentence. Oh, book. One week and I can spend all the time with you either of us desire. :p

Bed, now. It's not next week yet.