And sometimes

Right now, I feel like hell physically. But my mind is blessedly free of brainfog and I can think. And I can write.

I woke up this morning itching to write in a way that I haven’t for a long, long time. In a moment of synchronicity, one of my beta readers sent me some feedback about Shaede overnight - just the kind of feedback I need to rework this into something better.

And so I embark upon another draft of Shaede. Hopefully this won’t take me overlong to go through - the bones are there, it’s just time to make them look pretty.

Time for some stats! Borrowing a page from Cherie Priest in the way she formats her daily work here.

Today’s progress:

Project: Shaede draft four
New words: 3,136
Total word count: 3,136
Goal: 100,000 words (or thereabouts)

Observations: Gah, I had a lot of writing tics in just the first chapter. And a lot of useless rambling. I’d forgotten how much I love the setting of The Crossing, though.

Things accomplished in real life: I stayed alive. Didn’t move much from the couch or the laptop, thanks to the fibro flare from hell. Painkillers are keeping the worst of the pain damped down, though.

Total words for 2008: 270,080

[cross-posted from my website]

And sometimes

Right now, I feel like hell physically. But my mind is blessedly free of brainfog and I can think. And I can write.

I woke up this morning itching to write in a way that I haven’t for a long, long time. In a moment of synchronicity, one of my beta readers sent me some feedback about Shaede overnight – just the kind of feedback I need to rework this into something better.

And so I embark upon another draft of Shaede. Hopefully this won’t take me overlong to go through – the bones are there, it’s just time to make them look pretty.

Time for some stats! Borrowing a page from Cherie Priest in the way she formats her daily work here.

Today’s progress:

Project: Shaede draft four
New words: 3,136
Total word count: 3,136
Goal: 100,000 words (or thereabouts)

Observations: Gah, I had a lot of writing tics in just the first chapter. And a lot of useless rambling. I’d forgotten how much I love the setting of The Crossing, though.

Things accomplished in real life: I stayed alive. Didn’t move much from the couch or the laptop, thanks to the fibro flare from hell. Painkillers are keeping the worst of the pain damped down, though.

Total words for 2008: 270,080

Mirrored from Stephanie Gunn.

And sometimes

Right now, I feel like hell physically. But my mind is blessedly free of brainfog and I can think. And I can write.

I woke up this morning itching to write in a way that I haven’t for a long, long time. In a moment of synchronicity, one of my beta readers sent me some feedback about Shaede overnight – just the kind of feedback I need to rework this into something better.

And so I embark upon another draft of Shaede. Hopefully this won’t take me overlong to go through – the bones are there, it’s just time to make them look pretty.

Time for some stats! Borrowing a page from Cherie Priest in the way she formats her daily work here.

Today’s progress:

Project: Shaede draft four
New words: 3,136
Total word count: 3,136
Goal: 100,000 words (or thereabouts)

Observations: Gah, I had a lot of writing tics in just the first chapter. And a lot of useless rambling. I’d forgotten how much I love the setting of The Crossing, though.

Things accomplished in real life: I stayed alive. Didn’t move much from the couch or the laptop, thanks to the fibro flare from hell. Painkillers are keeping the worst of the pain damped down, though.

Total words for 2008: 270,080

Mirrored from Stephanie Gunn.