#69

To no great surprise, Intergalactic Medicine Show was not interested in my humble tale of pirates (89 days round trip). I'm not sure in hindsight why I sent it to them in the first place -- whatever logic there was in that decision escapes me now. Two of the better markets for it are for the moment off my list because I've already got other stuff subbed to them, but I did get it back out in the mail on Saturday. A few days hence I'm sure it will somehow fail to grab JJA, and then I'll have to revisit where to send it once again.

I haven't been posting much. I'm still working on Novel the Second, albeit slowly (just crossed the 25k mark), and still have to finish my Aztec Five Suns story. I suspect I might be fighting some sort of subtle con-crud -- I don't feel particularly ill other than a headache that refuses to go away, but I'm completely exhausted all the time and have been taking naps off and on all weekend. I'd hoped to putter around in the yard today but it's overcast so the mosquitoes are out. Still, the yard is looking good: Cthulhu the Wisteria is about to flower, my irises are starting to pop, and everything is looking mighty green.

some writing after all

Miledrop
26,500 of 100,000

About 1200 words today, along with two naps, one load of laundry, and half the dining room cleaned. My heroes are all still stuck in the bottom of a very big pit, but at least they're talking to each other now (albeit with some entirely understandable suspicion). Chapter 7 is half-done, and I'm going to set myself a baby-step goal of having it finished by Wednesday. That should leave plenty of time for moping and playing solitaire (latest obsession: pileon) and still getting the writing done.

Weekends just aren't long enough.