Got no need for shelter; everything's forgotten. All is forgiven and understood.

[leahbobet]

February 26, 2012 Progress Notes:

On Roadstead Farm

Words today: 600 (and then 250 more after dinner).
Words total: 18,100. 18,350.
Reason for stopping: I don't actually want to stop; it's all hot and alive in my head. But I've run out of things to add tonight.

Darling du Jour: The rage doused like it'd stumbled through a rainstorm.
Words Hallie Won't Admit to Knowing: coalesced.
Mean Things: A confirmation that indeed, scary shit is afoot.

Research Roundup: Fiberglass composite pilings, and their lifespan.
Books in progress: China Mieville, Embassytown.

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Sleepy sleepy Sunday. I am making bread, and drinking cherry rose rooibos (which I think is courtesy of Jana, from a birthday or Christmas present), and thinking what to do with beets, since I have tons of farmshare beets and need a dinner sooner or later. The inbox is tolerably tidy again. It's being one of those good Fake Freelance Lifestyle days.

The big news around the house this week: Fake Freelance Lifestyle is soon to become Real Freelance Lifestyle. Back in October, that Ontario Arts Council works in progress grant I applied for?

Well. I got it.

I will have a month more at The Dayjob, and then my job will be to write this book through the spring and summer.

And after that? Who knows? But I have this distinct feeling that it'll be one hell of an adventure.

Comments

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Adventure!

*is cheering you so hard right now*

[wirewalking.livejournal.com]

Six months of writing? Holy fuck. That is the coolest ever. I am a.) super happy for you and b.) goodnaturedly slightly jealous. It sounds like a fun book to be fulltiming, too. <3

[txanne.livejournal.com]

Wow, my flist just kicked up three awesome pieces of good news in a row! \o/

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Good luck in this!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Congrats! How awesome!

[grimmwire.livejournal.com]

Yay! Good on ya.

[clarentine]

That is the awesomest news! That Arts Council has good taste.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Yay grant! So pleased for you. And farewell dayjob; I hope you never need another. Freelance can be rough, but it's really the only way to live.