I haven't posted much about it, so far, but after three days I have slightly over 5000 words of background material for Pyrlogos. So I'm on pace so far. And I'm even (kind of) sticking to the novel format! It's just... a novel that's so far composed of 5000 words of exposition.

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Once again, too tired to deal with the excerpt stuff. But we're closing in...

I will do this.


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No excerpt tonight. Too tired to deal with it.

Instead, you get an un-LJ-cut word meter and a calendar! Yay! (I was going to leave the calendar uncut, too, but then I remembered that I'd set its size rather explicitly to get the "calendar" aesthetic right, and I don't want to break anyone's layout.)


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( Word meter! Still slightly behind. )

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So, Friday morning I had my wisdom teeth out. All four of them. I spent most of Friday and Saturday just relaxing, taking the occasional ibuprofen and Vicodin (which did exactly what it was supposed to - make the pain go away without, in fact, making me high as a kite), drinking protein shakes, and generally being pampered by Sora, who'd ( Read more... )

( The word count. Doing alright. )