I’m so glad Christmas is almost over. It sucks the brain from my skull like the yolk from those fancy Ukrainian painted eggs. I cannot keep track of which words belong to which dates; I will now begin tracking my progress via total word counts. Also, this method prevents me from taking credit for all the crappy words which I later remove. It will, I am sure, lead to negative word counts during some periods (sigh). Not-a-Werewolf: 14,000.Godot: No progress; continues to suck.Last Duellists: Met with beta readers for awesome dinner and feedback, but haven’t yet actually fixed story.Dickensian Fantasy: um, somewhere north of 250,000 all told. Figured out how to fix part one; scared to start. Received for Christmas: silver acorn, print of family home, great quantity of drink, chipotle mustard, thing to make vichyssoise in.Still want for Christmas: luggage, huge biceps, correct spelling of “vichyssoise”. […]
All we like sheep have gone astray
(Having once sung the Messiah with my university choir, I tend to get the entire damned thing stuck in my head at this time of year, except for the parts without a soprano part, which didn’t get rehearsed at the same times.) Major technical problems at Casa Clairification the last few weeks: I couldn’t get online much at all. What began as a major annoyance turned out to be a source of exactly the right kind of boredom. Instead of puttering about reading the words of others, I buckled down and wrote some of my own. Anyone actually prolific will scoff at these counts, no doubt. All I can say in my defense is that it’s also busy season at the Day Career and I keep being the one to turn the lights out at the office. Not-a-Werewolf Book: 9990 words since Nov 17 Godot Story: 2789 words (actually, quite a few more words than that, but the rest of them sucked, and were duly excised) “The Tongue of Bees”, formerly “BEitD”, formerly “LtLCBftCaW”, is now in the mail. !!!! You’d think this would involve about thirty seconds: print story, stick story in envelope, lick envelope, affix stamp. In fact–and […]