On this the sixth day of NaNo, I finished a second novel chapter (which puts me halfway, or maybe two-fifths of the way, through my writing goal for the novel for this month; I was a little vague). This puts me at nineteen chapters complete (out of probably twenty-five), 71,601 words, 301 manuscript pages. I think another two thousand words or so ( Read more... )

Today I gave blood (which I had been meaning to do for ... years), sent the fairy tale story recently rejected by Strange Horizons off to F&SF (which I'd been meaning to do since ... Monday), and while out for my Very Slow Run (Really Mostly Walking), I took a picture of something I'd been meaning to take a picture of for three years.

( Flowers for the 28 bus. )

Step two: ???

So, not an especially productive evening so far, but all my Firefox tabs have been assiduously refreshed and my books-read spreadsheet is up to date.

This month's reading so far:

( First contact, more different first contact, first contact plus snow and ice, last contact, exotic tribespeople, and exotic fairies. )