February 23, 2016 Progress Notes:

The Robot Monuments

Words today: 400.
Words total: 13,100.
Reason for stopping: Pressure headache and my brain is all woooo.

Darling du Jour: "Hakubi Line with stops at Hōki-Mizoguchi, Kishimoto, and Hōki-Daisen," an entirely different mechanical voice intones, and the doors hang open, waiting for schoolgirls or ( Read more... )

February 18, 2016 Progress Notes:

The Robot Monuments

Words today: 500.
Words total: 12,700.
Reason for stopping: Time to start dinner; company coming over tonight.

Darling du Jour: A pair of single beds, the right tight-sheeted, the left a rumpled curve of shed blanket-cocoon; a pair of desks, the right empty, polished wood and the left a riot ( Read more... )

February 9, 2016 Progress Notes:

The Robot Monuments

Words today: 1,200.
Words total: 12,200.
Reason for stopping: Time to start dinner.

Darling du Jour: It's been a year since I started balancing. None of it feels natural anymore: leaned against the grey wind on the ten-block walk to school, sleeping against the angle of ghost-elbows in a ( Read more... )

December 17, 2015 Progress Notes:

The Robot Monuments

Words today: 300.
Words total: 10,400.
Reason for stopping: It is late and I want to stretch my sore hip and read Illuminae.

Darling du Jour: N/A.

Research Roundup: Common Japanese surnames and their etymology.

Books in progress: John Lorinc, Michael McClelland, Ellen Scheinberg, and Tatum ( Read more... )

December 16, 2015 Progress Notes:

The Robot Monuments

Words today: 450 through last week, and 300 today.
Words total: 10,100.
Reason for stopping: Dinner. Bed.

Darling du Jour: N/A.

Research Roundup: Neurological tests for cooperation; how to dig turnips; etymology of Yamamoto.

Books in progress: John Lorinc, Michael McClelland, Ellen ( Read more... )

December 2, 2015 Progress Notes:

The Robot Monuments

Words today: 800.
Words total: 9,350.
Reason for stopping: Some freelance to do today, and then a Christmas party in the evening, so it's time to move on.

Darling du Jour: The same look in her eyes as that boy on the train: I am magical and frightening and can make anything happen.

Research ( Read more... )

October 8, 2015 Progress Notes:

The Robot Monuments

Words today: 500.
Words total: 8,550.
Reason for stopping: Ridiculously late.

Darling du Jour: For a second, I just absorb it: The salt taste in my mouth, the smell of hot metal and gym mats, my feet planted, unshakeable, on the waxed wood floor.
For a second, I can feel everything.

Research ( Read more... )

September 29, 2015 Progress Notes:

The Robot Monuments

Words today: 600.
Words total: 8,050.
Reason for stopping: Sleep time. Big day tomorrow, lots to do.

Darling du Jour: She thinks of fish fins, flickering just enough to push the body along. Darting in and out of the current at will, tasting ocean. Exploring.

Research Roundup: N/A.

Books ( Read more... )

September 19, 2015 Progress Notes:

The Robot Monuments

Words today: 900.
Words total: 7,300.
Reason for stopping: Hands ache.

Darling du Jour: N/A; it was mostly transitions.

Research Roundup: Non-gross terms for Japanese skin tones; a few mil-SF synopses.

Books in progress: China Mieville, Three Moments of an Explosion.
It's been busier than ( Read more... )

July 24, 2015 Progress Notes:

The Robot Monuments

Words today: 1,000.
Words total: 5,600.
Reason for stopping: Dinnertime.

Darling du Jour: A battalion of uniformed ground crew swarms over it, rappelling off the same thick cables they're using to tie it down. "Left leg is secure!" a man with a tablet calls, and stories above, the cockpit opens ( Read more... )