Yesterday: 1116 words, total 9376.

After which we headed up to LA to meet up with castlebravo and yellow3 (who are moving up north) and kayjkay and absinth1977 (who are not). We started out with an Ethiopian feast for lunch, hung out at the LA County Museum of Art for a while, then headed to Canter's for dinner... all in all, a very Angeleno kind of day ( Read more... )

Yesterday, 1625 words, total 4192.

Last night we got to see lizhand read at Mysterious Galaxy as part of the Clarion reading series... finally, as Aestival Tide has been one of the most formative and influential books I've read.

Bonus Digression: Sharon's top five most influential books!
A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L'Engle
the Riddlemaster trilogy, ( Read more... )

Your result for Which fantasy writer are you?...
Mary Gentle (b. 1956)

17 High-Brow, 11 Violent, 23 Experimental and 25 Cynical!
( Details LJ-cut to spare the innocent... )

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Yesterday: 530 words, total 95,003.

Today's Goals:
Writing: 1250 words (1240, chapter 20 done!)
House: Moar laundry (yes)
Self: Exercise (no)

Yesterday: 1422 words, total 94,473. Our mighty band of ragged adventurers is getting ready to storm the citadel. Betcha didn't know I was writing that kind of novel! Okay, so maybe not...

Not sure if words will happen today. Insomnia last night means I'm getting off to a slow start. (At least it wasn't the free-floating-anxiety-going-NOM-NOM- ( Read more... )

Yesterday: 368 words, total 93,051. Not many words, but a good day for recharging: malfunctioning robot board games hosted by zwol. (Note: it was the players, not the robots, who ware doing most of the malfunctioning.) Followed by a late showing of Up, which was as wonderful as people are saying. I'm not sure what to say about it, except that I'd ( Read more... )

Yesterday: 1183 words, total 92,683. The next couple of scenes should be much easier... and then, of course, everything comes to a conclusion. I'd say a satisfying conclusion, but "satisfying" probably has to wait for another draft.

Not sure whether today's a half-day or a day off. So either words will happen, or they won't. I'm playing it by ( Read more... )

Yesterday: 557 words, total 91,500. I was a bit distractible yesterday (for some strange reason), and after dinner just could not drag myself back down to the emotional nadir that is my novel right now.

At
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... 'cause I've used an awful lot of 'em squeeing the past few days ( Read more... )