Day 1 word count: ~3000 (all pure genius, of course… at least at the moment… they will probably be magically transformed into straw overnight)
Number of hours at the keyboard: 11
Number of hours not at the keyboard: 2 (but the dishes are clean, damn it, even the ones the cats eat from)
Cups of coffee: 3
Showers, baths or other hygienic activities: 0
Number of songs on playlist with “battle” or “war” in the title: 24
Number of times I had to look up the hierarchy of ranks in the Red Army (because I can never remember rank hierarchies even though I was in the army myself): 4
Number of ibuprofens: 1 (probably related to number of chin-ups on Tuesday: 0, actually, but not for lack of trying)
Number of minor characters for whom I substituted the word “name” instead of naming them on the spot, due to forgetting list of Russian names when I left for the coffee shop: 5
Number of times protagonist lost consciousness: 0, although he did go to sleep during someone else’s POV scene (this metric is here to keep me on track, folks–I used to love to sneak out of scenes by knocking out the POV character)
Number of times I checked my day-career email: 0 (for once!)
Number of cups of delicious David’s Amaretto Rooibos: 2. And now, to make another. G’night!
