I had a funny dream this morning. Can’t remember much about it, but I woke up laughing. Wish I could wake up laughing every morning.
During my commute to work on the eastbound train, a woman was sobbing her heart out while a man sat red-eyed and mournful beside her.
As I was ascending the steps of the capitol, I passed a shirtless man descending them. He grinned at me, revealing many missing teeth, and wished me “good morning.”
The world is full of stories.
Ruthless cutting of -1.5K words on The Stupid Novel and Part 4 is now at zero draft. Rah! Onward to Part 5; entering the final stretch. And with only three more weeks left in December, it really does feel like a race.
550 words on the The Stupid Novel. So close to zero draft on Part 4 I can almost taste it. Then onto Part 5, the exciting climax…
And my love/hate ping-pong match with insomnia continues. Got almost no sleep last night, but wrote 1.7K words on The Stupid Novel. I can has coffee now, plez? *twitch*
Ad hoc research overload. Brain overflowing with trivia on the kanji used in Japanese newspapers and the symbolism of carnations in the language of flowers. Gah!
Progress and stuff: 1K more words down on The Stupid Novel and made another guest blog post at Jeff VanderMeer’s Ecstatic Days pimping a couple excellent projects, “Mansfield Park and Mummies & Lord Dickens’s Declaration.”
Writing writing writing.
Ooo! Damien G Walter gave “Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Beast; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast” a shout-out (alongside Clarke, Bester, Le Guin, etc.) in his “Name the best science fiction titles” post in the Guardian!
Well, it’s December, and I’m still plugging away at The Stupid Novel. Sigh. At least I managed to plug 2.3K words into it yesterday.
The website I’ve been working on for Ari Marmell (mouseferatu), good friend and amazing writer, went live today. Check out the shiny at Mouseferatu.com.
It was a less quiet and productive holiday than I’d hoped. Drama, Stress, Sickness, and Automotive Distress: the four riders of my t-day apocalypse.
Glad to be back at my desk and at work.
