Drowning Nor Waving

January 6, 2007 Progress Notes:

The Patron Saint of Nothing (formerly the Untitled New Weird Thingy)

Words today: 750.
Words total: 16,350 MS Word.
Reason for stopping: Quota, brain hurts.
Liquid Refreshment: Russian Caravan tea.
Munchies: Leftover tuna casserole.
Exercise: N/A.
Mail: A few rejections in the last week, galleys from Strange Horizons.
Other Writing-Related Work: Withdrew a story and resubbed it, bookselling, slushed the largest slush in all of the slushy land, went over and returned those galleys above.
Darling du Jour: Case nodded, slow. The hardass boatman looked a lot less hardass than he had two nights before. But if he knew he was no sneak-thief, an average gardener, a downright shitty blackmailer, he knew wasn't up to slaying no monsters for bread.
Tyop du Jour: N/A
Words MS Word Doesn't Know: N/A.
Mean Things: Qara and Sakhile, Rogue Xenobiologists: Gave them an impossible project to complete to Save The City (tm), but really it's a political setup and they know it. They have one year. *g*
Case: Caught between a rock and a hard place, sort of.
Research Roundup: Hedgehog biology, medieval recipes.
Books in progress: Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore; Jay Lake, Trial of Flowers.
The glamour: I suspect I am fighting off sick. I've been sleeping twelve hours a night for the past five days and had that cool-water-in-the-back-of-the-throat feeling that you get when you're going to throw up for nigh on three of those days. A bit of tea at work yesterday settled it, but...ugh. Either throw up or don't! Silly meatpuppet.

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So that's Day One:

750 / 67,500 (1.1%)

Now for some dishes and house stuff, and our regularly-scheduled short story writing...


ETA, 8pm:
"A Thousand"

Words today: 750.
Words total: 1700 MS Word.
Reason for stopping: Needs more thinking now! I have worked lots!