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I'm not getting too much done on the book just now - time is just running away with me. I've been doing extra shifts at my volunteer job at Paws and Claws (SPCA thrift store) and, of course, the garden keeps crying out for care, as do the elders (my elderly aunt and uncle in a retirement residence 16 miles away).
My other problem with writing period fiction is that I tend to get carried away on the research - the world used to be so much more interesting than it is today!
I've been reading Hemingway's 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' which, predictably, has also sent me off on a tangent finding out more about the Spanish Civil War - info I really don't need taking up room in my mind at the moment. I usually try to limit myself to light fiction when I want to concentrate on my own writing but I got thoroughly frustrated with a couple of really badly written paperbacks I had the misfortune to pick up (at my thrift store, actually).
Anyway, after I finish the summer issue of the anxiety disorders newsletter I publish, I'll get down to some serious work this week.