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It's 9am.
I have tidied my desk (for, granted, a given value of 'tidy', but still. I can *see* (most of) my desks. This is HUGE! :-)
I have also cleared 17,000 words. Go me! :-D
Re: Word count: It's interesting. Last year, when I did this, I'd never written so much in the same file before - particularly not in such a short amount of time. The longest thing I'd written was about 25 pages (this despite many years of grad studies... Hm...) So seeing my page count at over 40 was kind of huge in and of itself.
This year having done it (twice, if you count the Enormous Matrix Fic that Will Not End), it's not so mind-boggling. It's like my brain is going "I've been here before. This is *totally* do-able" or something.
Which is pretty cool, I think. :-)
I'm currently writing a note to my Gram (to be followed by one to my Nana, to be followed by mailing the lot of them and getting some groceries over at the A&P before Idioglossia turns up). :-)
I've got chicken cooking in the oven (I thought I should cook it before it went off, um...). I can chop it up tonight and put it with pasta and broccoli or something. :-)
Anyway, between now and about noon, I need to tidy the main floor of my house (less difficult, perhaps, than I originally thought... thank goodness!) and get my groceries done. Then I can happily up my word count (1300 to go - or there abouts - to make today's requirement!) until Idioglossia arrives.
Hurrah. :-D
On a seriously random note: I've been listening to WriMo Radio, and I've discovered something. (Or possibly I'm just kidding myself).
You know the way people 'talk' online? (Maybe this is just in fandom, or just the people I hang out with, I don't know). That thing where you type stuff, and then type yourself going back over what you just said and realizing that it sounds really weird and trying to explain it in an ironic and/or humorous fashion? (Rather than, say, just delete what you typed, retyping it more clearly, and *then* hitting the 'post'/'send' button).
That way?
It filters over into actual speech!
The WriMo Radio people - if no-one else - talk as if they're blogging.
It's really weird and kind of cool at the same time.
And I just felt a need to spew about that.
So there we go. :-)
Back to my letters. :-)
- TTFN,
- Amazon. :-)
I have tidied my desk (for, granted, a given value of 'tidy', but still. I can *see* (most of) my desks. This is HUGE! :-)
I have also cleared 17,000 words. Go me! :-D
Re: Word count: It's interesting. Last year, when I did this, I'd never written so much in the same file before - particularly not in such a short amount of time. The longest thing I'd written was about 25 pages (this despite many years of grad studies... Hm...) So seeing my page count at over 40 was kind of huge in and of itself.
This year having done it (twice, if you count the Enormous Matrix Fic that Will Not End), it's not so mind-boggling. It's like my brain is going "I've been here before. This is *totally* do-able" or something.
Which is pretty cool, I think. :-)
I'm currently writing a note to my Gram (to be followed by one to my Nana, to be followed by mailing the lot of them and getting some groceries over at the A&P before Idioglossia turns up). :-)
I've got chicken cooking in the oven (I thought I should cook it before it went off, um...). I can chop it up tonight and put it with pasta and broccoli or something. :-)
Anyway, between now and about noon, I need to tidy the main floor of my house (less difficult, perhaps, than I originally thought... thank goodness!) and get my groceries done. Then I can happily up my word count (1300 to go - or there abouts - to make today's requirement!) until Idioglossia arrives.
Hurrah. :-D
On a seriously random note: I've been listening to WriMo Radio, and I've discovered something. (Or possibly I'm just kidding myself).
You know the way people 'talk' online? (Maybe this is just in fandom, or just the people I hang out with, I don't know). That thing where you type stuff, and then type yourself going back over what you just said and realizing that it sounds really weird and trying to explain it in an ironic and/or humorous fashion? (Rather than, say, just delete what you typed, retyping it more clearly, and *then* hitting the 'post'/'send' button).
That way?
It filters over into actual speech!
The WriMo Radio people - if no-one else - talk as if they're blogging.
It's really weird and kind of cool at the same time.
And I just felt a need to spew about that.
So there we go. :-)
Back to my letters. :-)
- TTFN,
- Amazon. :-)
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