I had to give my dear friend, Drie, credit today for refraining from a well deserved 'I told you so' when I told her the sob-story of my crash-and-burn illness. She's told me almost every time we talked about all the insanity I was up to (and how little I was sleeping as a result) for well over a month now that I needed to stop and sleep more or my ( Read more... )

Monday’s Metrics: wrote 295 words, breaking the 1000 word mark at 1136 words in Neoptolemus now. It’s difficult to write this part well - and therefore really hard to get over it and just get the words on the page and worry about ‘well’ later. Odysseus in this story is a real piece of work - and it’s essential for the plot and for him as a foil to ( Read more... )