A brightm sunny day, but cool again. Windy, the air so dry we have a "red flag warning," and the high was only 65F.

The sky looks like autumn and makes me want to hide under the bed (see photo below ( Read more... )

Another warm day. Indian Summer is back for sure. The high was 77F.

Last night, instead of going to bed when Kathryn did, I waited about half an hour and then wrote the fifth interlude for The Night Watchers. It came to 1,265, oddly the same word count from the night before. I think I got to bed about 2 a.m. My 2 a.m., which is the same as EST 2 a ( Read more... )

Sunny today. A high of 77F.

I woke last night at 1 a.m., watched a movie, and when it was done I got up and wrote on The Night Watchers until 4 a.m. I did 1,265 words and finished "interlude four." Then I went to bed and slept until 6:44 a.m., when I got up and edited what I'd written. This is a very strange way to be a writer, but it seems to be ( Read more... )

A warmer day today. That was the good thing. Our high was 75F, and I actually have my window open again.

I slept sytraight through until 6 a.m., which hardly ever happens. I spent the next two hours trying to write the fourth interlude in The Night Watchers, but I had underestimated the degree to which it needed to be researched ahead of time. ( Read more... )

By turns, sunny and a little rainy today. Our high was 82F, with a heat index of 85F.

The afternoon's film was Chad Stahelski's John Wick: Chapter Three - Parabellum (2019 ( Read more... )

Sunny toady, a wide carnivorous sky, and a high of 72˚F.

This is going to be short. I've been writing very long entries, and it's been a long day, and I need a break. The dust from yesterday still has not settled.

I was up at 5:30, and by 9 a.m. I'd written another 1,664 words on The Night Watchers. And then I made it to McWane by 10:30 a.m. and ( Read more... )

Sunny today and a little warmer. Our high was 65˚F ( Read more... )

A sunny day. The sky was too blue and empty, though. Wide and carnivorous. We don't get that so much in Alabama. The high was 56˚F ( Read more... )

Hot again today. Our high was 94˚F, with a heat index of 98˚F. And the sky was just horrid.

A rough night last night, ill for much of it, and as a result I did not start a story today and I did not go into McWane. I did a little prep on Winifred. But mostly I did nothing.

The afternoon's film was James Cameron's Avatar (2009). In some ways, this ( Read more... )

Sunny today, and a more summery sky. The sky has been that very cloudless, autumnal blue the last couple of days, what I have often called "the wide carnivorous sky." Though, that sky doesn't seem to be bothering me as much these days. Probably it's knowing the mountains are helping to hold it up. Our high was 82˚F ( Read more... )