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Current wordcount: 69,959. Official wordcount goal: 80,000. Date spreadsheet predicts I'll hit 80,000: January 2. Predicted draft 0 wordcount: 75,488 (ouch). Predicted day I'll hit predicted draft 0 wordcount: December 24. I'm not that worried about the predicted...
Of course. Sigh.
Of course, setting a writing goal means a server disaster that includes me staying until 4:30am and then getting up at 7 to go to training. I missed a couple of writing days. Will I end up getting the upgrade anyway? Tune in at the end of the month and find out!
Must. Write. More.
It's not that I don't want to write. It's not that I don't enjoy it. It's that I'm tired. What I don't get is that I'm writing less now than I was during the email migration. Argh! On the other hand, my spreadsheet of doom says that if I write every day I'll be...
Rant of the Day
I am a System Administrator. In fact, I am a SAGE Level III SysAdmin. I am not an Administrative Assistant. I will not let you write down my job title as Administrative Assistant on a hospital admission form. And no, I will not take a message for my boss. If you...
Happy Exploitation of Native Cultures Day!
Happy Dead Bird Day to those of you who eat dead bird, and happy Tofurkey day to the rest of us. Today is a very special day in the US; a harvest festival where we celebrate gluttony. (Some families celebrate all seven of the deadly sins, but we're slothful slackers...
Apparently, it’s all about… ooh, donuts!
Email migration hell has been over for a couple of months, and yet I'm not writing every day. I did get a galley of a story and am wandering over from time to time to see if my story's out yet, but other than that... I need to do something about that. On the up side,...
Immortal Gifts invites readers to re-evaluate the meanings of things such as life, death, freedom, hate and love from the first page. Katherine Villyard manages to capture some of the most poignant questions we ask ourselves as we go through our individual lives. Is it worth being able to live forever if, in the end, we’ll lose the ones we love to mortality? Is Death really the ultimate enemy to life, or is death just life’s misunderstood old friend? To stop hate, do we need to restrict our freedoms? This book makes readers ask and answer tough questions not only about the characters and plotline, but about their own beliefs, understandings, and dreams.