Beginning Words: 21,215
Ending Words: 21,701
Tea/Drink: None
Music: Dresden Dolls
Reason for stopping: Got to the end of the chapter
Darling in the words: Draft still too rough ( Read more... )

As tomorrow I have a major teleconference first thing in the morning, and I have just finished preparing my part of the presentation, I shall invoke tonight a night off. Tomorrow I will return to the writing mines, ready, willing, and able. Or, at least show up;)

Beginning Words: 20,643
Ending Words: 21,215
Tea/Drink: None
Music: Dresden Dolls
Reason for stopping: Got to the midpoint of second scene, realize need big reveal from torture
Darling in the words: (Don't mock the XXXXs, I will figure out the names one day ( Read more... )

Beginning Words: 20,643
Ending Words: 20,751
Tea/Drink: Stash Peppermint Tea
Music: Dresden Dolls
Reason for stopping: Got to the opening of second scene, want to let characters/tension simmer overnight
Darling in the words: None, still too early in drafting new scene ( Read more... )

Beginning Words: 20,391
Ending Words: 20,643
Tea/Drink: Teaism Lavender Lemon Mint
Music: Dresden Dolls
Reason for stopping: Figured out opening paragraph (still in rough draft but has right feel)
Darling in the words: Night had come for her, darkening the page of numbers she had been staring at for the last ten minutes. Lydia laughed, a short and ( Read more... )

Beginning Words: 20,077
Ending Words: 20,391
Tea/Drink: Teaism Lavender Lemon Mint
Music: Poe/Portishead/Lana Del Rey/Portishead again
Reason for stopping: Got to natural pause in Lydia's chapter
Darling in the words: None tonight (draft is waaaay too rough at this point ( Read more... )

Beginning Words: 20,177
Ending Words: 20,077
Tea/Drink: Stash Herbal Mint
Music: The Fountain Soundtrack
Reason for stopping: End of revising chapter
Darling in the words: I stood beside the door and watched as a man lit the night lantern for the Crushed Madder. The flame sputtered, wavered in a breeze, and then ignited into a steady burn ( Read more... )

In hopes of one day finishing this novel that I have pecked at now for the last *mumble* years, I am going to be doing these update writing posts. My goal is to work on this novel four days a week. [So far this is day two for this week.] I'm not really going to make word count goals, as I revise as I write, rather this is more a "butt in chair and ( Read more... )

One of the books I'm reading right now is the Three Hundred Poems of the Tang Dynasty (618-906). I'd read before Li Bai and Du Fu, the two poets widely considered the best of the Tang era. And when I read one of their joint collections, I agreed they were brilliant. Then I moved on without another thought about the environment that produced them ( Read more... )

Okay having grown up in DC and spent my entire professional career here I have to say that I have never read an article that captures the truth of this town like this one ( Read more... )