Yes! I actually wrote last night!

[rflong]

Some more Moy Tura hit the laptop and went splat all over the place. 2,379 words to be exact. The rest of the chapter I didn't want to finish -- the unpleasant part. And the start of the next chapter.

Favorite Sentence:

Tuan should have laughed. But he didn’t.

He studied Jack instead, so closely that Jack prayed for him to crack a joke, to give the smallest smile.

But there was nothing. His face was impossibly grim. He hardly looked like the Tuan Jack had come to know at all.

today's word count: 2379
total word count: 50812

This has brought me up to about 269 pages (I think) and I appear to be on the downhill roll now (spot the words liable to completely knacker any further progress).

I know where we're going. I just have to get us there. *sigh*

No other news. Children have not assaulted anyone. Bought a barbeque which we now have to construct. I expect we'll have it done just as the fine weather goes away. :D

Speaking of the weather, I'm looking out the window here and trying to devise ways of escaping without being noticed. It is just glorious -- birds singing, sun shining, the breeze moving gently through the leaves of the enormous horse chestnut on the far side of the field. And an enormous pile of books to catalogue on my desk. I seriously need to investigate ways of remote cataloguing. It has to be possible!!!

Ticking along.

Comments

[kara-gnome.livejournal.com]

I love spring, it really is so beautiful.

I used to do a lot of cataloguing, but now our library is using Follett's Destiny, so with the Union and all, those days are pretty much over. I think I've catalogued three things all year.

One year it was hundreds, as we had so many incomplete/bad records that it was insane. There was also the year that I put our entire system into a Word Document for spelling check. *sigh* I worked so hard on that! But then the Union came and lost most of my pretty records to replace them with monsters.

Oh, well, so it goes. We just finished inventory yesterday, which means that I've done the last inventory of my life. Yay! LOL, too funny.

Great going on the Book, really great. I think that now that you're through the Dreaded Middle, it should go just fine, that's my hope, anyway.

[namelessarchon.livejournal.com]

Awesome when writing comes like that. Congrats.

[gabriel-writes.livejournal.com]

Great wordcount. I just put in a load of laundry so am now heading to type a few myself.

In your quote, you have Tuan studying Jack, (Tuan's POV,) then Jack praying for Tuan to crack a joke. How would the reader know this if we're not in Jack's POV?

[rflong.livejournal.com]

It's all Jack's POV. Jack is wishing that the situation in which they find themselves isn't so serious, but he knows from Tuan's reaction - he sees Tuan studying him - that it is.

Not a good place to drop you in actually. Ah well.

[gabriel-writes.livejournal.com]

That's okay. I knew we didn't have the whole picture and I have a hard time not being able to crit. Bad habit, eh?

Keep up the good work, now I really am going to get some writing done.