..And the sun is shining, which we like
Jul. 6th, 2006 10:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperance...Well, actually it's not, because it's night-time, but it has shined all day, and we do like that.
So here is a shiny list of things, to set against yesterday's mud & gloom:
I overslept by two hours but still wrote eight pages today, and had a Bright Idea that means the ending just might work after all (well, actually what happened was that I found the book heading inexorably towards this thing, this event, that had never occurred to me before but was just inevitable the moment that I saw it coming; seeds have been planted all the way through the previous thousand pages; how could I not have seen it before?);
those eight pages took me past five hundred on this date, 6th July, which as I recorded four hundred on 23rd June means that I've written twenty per cent of the book in thirteen days, gee willikins;
I picked parsley and tarragon from my pots in the yard for my lunch-time omelette, which tasted grand (and is another tick in my flavours box, because one of my deepest-seated childhood loathings was that whole aniseed/liquorice spectrum, and I don't think twice now about the herbs - fennel, tarragon, a range of basils - that straddle it, tho' I'd still avoid the things themselves);
'Bridge of Dreams' has been spotted independently and in the flesh, in bookshops in San Francisco (in the window, yet) and on Wall Street.
I'm sure there was more, too, but I don't remember it now. It's been a day for counting blessings, as well as counting words.
Oh, and I did get to go to the supermarket. Which means ten minutes of your actual shopping (which I do enjoy for its own sake) and forty minutes of walking through parks and moorland talking to cows and dogs and magpies, occasionally to people. In the hot & lovely sunshine. Happy Chaz.
So here is a shiny list of things, to set against yesterday's mud & gloom:
I overslept by two hours but still wrote eight pages today, and had a Bright Idea that means the ending just might work after all (well, actually what happened was that I found the book heading inexorably towards this thing, this event, that had never occurred to me before but was just inevitable the moment that I saw it coming; seeds have been planted all the way through the previous thousand pages; how could I not have seen it before?);
those eight pages took me past five hundred on this date, 6th July, which as I recorded four hundred on 23rd June means that I've written twenty per cent of the book in thirteen days, gee willikins;
I picked parsley and tarragon from my pots in the yard for my lunch-time omelette, which tasted grand (and is another tick in my flavours box, because one of my deepest-seated childhood loathings was that whole aniseed/liquorice spectrum, and I don't think twice now about the herbs - fennel, tarragon, a range of basils - that straddle it, tho' I'd still avoid the things themselves);
'Bridge of Dreams' has been spotted independently and in the flesh, in bookshops in San Francisco (in the window, yet) and on Wall Street.
I'm sure there was more, too, but I don't remember it now. It's been a day for counting blessings, as well as counting words.
Oh, and I did get to go to the supermarket. Which means ten minutes of your actual shopping (which I do enjoy for its own sake) and forty minutes of walking through parks and moorland talking to cows and dogs and magpies, occasionally to people. In the hot & lovely sunshine. Happy Chaz.
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Date: 2006-07-07 12:13 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-07-07 06:09 am (UTC)(Tho' the series now gets half a chapter in an academic book on gay elements in fantasy, so hey...)
Enjoy. And report back, yeah? I can take it...
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Date: 2006-07-07 08:07 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-07-07 02:00 am (UTC)Hah! I knew it! You rock.