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deire, it's your turn on the business end of the Sparkly Paddle of Birthday Wonderfulness, spanking you into another year.Here are today’s stats for the fabulous urban fantasy adventure about a neurotic vampire/thief and her wealthy blind client, now with Bonus! Cuban drag queen and military intrigue:
Project: Bloodshot
New Words Written: 4985 (Some added last night; only about 4000 today)
Present Total Word Count: 94,570 words
Goal: Draft Zero by December 12 -ACCOMPLISHED
Things Accomplished in Fiction: Wrapped it up, baby. Wrapped up all of it. This, ladies and gents and all others, is a Draft Zero.
Things Accomplished in Real Life: Virtually nothing. This has been eating my brain and I had to get it out, out, out. And now - best of all - I have almost 2 whole weeks to batter this puppy into a Draft One before sending it back to Anne! [:: does a little dance ::]
Reason for Stopping: BECAUSE I CAN.
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Volgens het Japanse onderzoeksinstituut Seed Planning zullen in 2015 dertien miljoen robots deel uitmaken van Japanse huishoudens. Ze worden gebruikt om hun eigenaren op te vrolijken, te troosten, en misschien zelfs helemaal te verzorgen. Zijn de Japanners klaar voor hun nieuwe huisgenoten? Close Up volgt het spoor van het Japanse stripfiguurtje Astroboy – een robot – op zoek naar het antwoord.
Ozamu Tezuka (Japan, 1928-1989) is de bedenker van één van de eerste succesvolle animatieseries in Japan. De serie gaat over een jonge held met de voornaam 'Atoom' (Astroboy), wat vreemd mag lijken voor een land dat door twee atoombommen verwoest werd. Maar de boodschap van de schrijver was dat de Japanners, ondanks alles, geloofden in atoomenergie en dus in de toekomst. In de originele animatieserie uit 1952, wordt Astroboy - als een moderne Pinocchio - gecreëerd in het jaar 2003. In de realiteit was 2003 het jaar waarin Japan na een experimentele fase overging op massaproductie van robots.idling kindly popped in and looked at the leaking toilet. Things look grim. He's coming back tomorrow but suspects I will need to call a plumber back in. Sigh. There is still leaking. The bathroom has been fully disinfected, again. And I have a towel to hopefully soak up the leaks. And I turned off the tap. We shall see what tomorrow brings.
6am and I am not writing 1000 words before breakfast. Plus: iPhone means I can post from bed ( miss p permitting). Glory.
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I have been a mighty, mighty bear tonight. 3080 words on "The Unicorn Evils," and 700 words on a review for Tor.com.
Darling:
It wasn't that Solomon Todd hadn't seen this sort of thing before.
It was that he had.
Phew. And I get to get up in the morning and do it again.
lethargicHere are today’s stats for the fabulous urban fantasy adventure about a neurotic vampire/thief and her wealthy blind client, now with Bonus! Cuban drag queen and military intrigue:
Project: Bloodshot
New Words Written: 6680 (YES. THAT’S WHAT I’M TALKIN’ ‘BOUT)
Present Total Word Count: 89,685 words
Goal: 95,000 words by December 12
Things Accomplished in Fiction: Raised a little hell. Not literally. This time.
Things Accomplished in Real Life: Day-job work; further adventures of Thanksgiving clean-up; laundry including bedding. That’s pretty much it, but in my defense, hey — did you SEE that word count? It’s amazing I even had time to brush my teeth.
Reason for Stopping: Time to go get the laundry out of the dryer, make up the bed again, fold all the clean clothes and put them away … and if this all gets done before the hubs gets home, maybe try to write YES A FEW MORE WORDS it could totally happen, you never know.
[Crossposted to/from my website. If you'd like to comment, you can do so either here or there.]
moosedevil, not a bad way to unwind :-) Nonnas is fucking amazing : if it was in London it would cost £100s,as it is in Sheffield you walk away from 3 courses, bottle of wine and a flight (a flight!) of port at £35 a head. Maiale of pork with scallops, osso buco rigatoni, chocolate tart with orange mousse and citrus sorbet - bl0ody hell. Better than Valvona and Crolla. I feel better now :-)
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sorecoffeeem and I have a draft, Grail (which has the less pressing deadline) has unkinked itself and wants to be written. Besides, I know what the next couple of scenes in TUE are, and Grail appears to need some back burner simmering.
tiredcalendula_witch I do believe I'm up to visitors today and tomorrow. Also, looks like I may be here til Sunday despite earlier hopes.jen_qoe, if you thought you were going to get away unscathed and unspanked, think again! The Sparkly Paddle of Birthday Wonderfulness shifts into high gear for your birthday spanking!
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