New Words:
500

Total Words:
12,400

Forward Motion:
1.5 mile walk, 30mins on stationary bike

Music:
The Avett Brothers

Reading:
Jane Eyre

Otherwise:
Sunday was fine. Now it's Monday. You know?

I'm watching my cat chase a mouse. Rather, I'm watching my cat chase and repeatedly catch a mouse, but he'll neither kill it nor drop it where I can trap it. I should probably thank the damned rodent, because if not for that excitement I probably would have fallen asleep hours ago. Being awake, I managed to get my words for the day.

New Words:
700

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Another argh-worthy day where work precluded everything else.

New Words:
250 (plus about 300 of rewritten material)

Total Words:
11,200

Forward Motion:
None

Music:
The Avett Brothers -- I and Love and You

Reading:
Jane Eyre

Otherwise:
Sarah F's in residence, and other delightful people are in town for the weekend. Yay!

Which includes my story, "Chain of Hearts," and lots of others that I look forward to reading. You have to love an epithet like "the planet's brutal savior."

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THE GOD MOCCUS IS BORN FOR THE BETTERMENT OF EARTH IN THE BLACKNESS WITHIN

New horror anthology from Apex Publishing Senior Editor Gill Ainsworth promises a better future, but not for all

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Back in the saddle! Work day was as peaceful as yesterday was hectic, and the writing came easy.

New Words:
800

Total Words:
10,950

Forward Motion:
3 miles

Music:
The Avett Brothers: I and Love and You (!!!)

Reading:
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
Jane Eyre

Otherwise:
Hoping to see an absurd number of friends this weekend. Are you one of them? For those available, ( Read more... )

Watch this concept video for a robotic pet and never ever sleep again:

You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com

Stefan Ulrich, who hates us all enough to design and build that Creeping Grub of Despair, "envisions that [in the future] people will turn to robots for the illusion of a living presence to satisfy their emotional needs." Over at Futurismic, Paul Raven has some doubts:

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Well, I fell off the horse yesterday. But I also worked a thirteen hour day, so I'm not going to berate myself too much.

New Words:
0

Total Words:
10,150

Forward Motion:
None

Music:
Nothing

Reading:
Nothing

Otherwise:
You get the idea. Hopefully that's the last day of its sort for a little while.

I was totally persuaded that I wasn't going to get my words for today. I was even more or less okay with that. Nonetheless, finished Chapter 3 and got a very freaking satisfactory start on Chapter 4, which I've been looking forward to for a while now. It's high time for a plot twist and a gunfight or two.

New Words:
750

Total Words:
10,150

Forward ( Read more... )

New Words:
800 (plus 500 of nonfiction)

Total Words:
9400

Forward Motion:
1 hour on stationary bike

Music:
The music it plays when you suck at Left 4 Dead

Reading:
Transition by Iain M. Banks

Otherwise:
Move along, nothing to see here.

Words came eaaaasy today. Which surprised me, because I was working on a very quiet sort of scene.

New Words:
700

Total Words:
8600

Forward Motion:
~1 mile walk, 30 minutes on stationary bike.

Music:
MGMT

Reading:
Finished Sandman Slim. Dude returns to Earth after ten years in hell to get revenge on the magicians who sent him there. Think Constantine as ( Read more... )