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I wrote maybe 50 words of actual usable fiction today; we'll see if any of it makes it into the final version of the current scene.

The exhaustion level is amazing - not commensurate.

Slow weekend, just a couple of thousand. However, in better news I have sold two poems to magazines (I know, I nearly fell over) and a section of the sci fi novel to an anthology. All for actual money! Not a lot, but still.

Well done Will!

Picking away at this novella when I get the chance. The folk song composer liked the words, so we're looking at more collaborations, but that seems to use a different bit of the brain.

What's that actual money stuff, Will? It sounds good - well done!

Go Will and commiserations to Tim and Pam. There was a parents panic this week so I've written nothing. Maybe I will fix that tomorrow. Here's hoping.

Cheers

MTM

Parental panic sounded awful. Glad it turned out well in the end, Mary

Does dreaming I've written loads count? Because that's pretty much what I was dreaming last night!!

✿Claire✿ (Tiny Owl) wrote: "Does dreaming I've written loads count? Because that's pretty much what I was dreaming last night!!"

Definitely. Take what you can get!

I sometimes dream about a story I'm convinced I've written but when I wake up it doesn't ring a bell... and then I can't remember what it's about.

That's the problem, I can't remember what I wrote!!

Kath and Claire ... wishful thinking?

Will, this sort of thing happens from time to time but less regularly than it did, thankfully. I've kind of got used to it though and to be honest, everyone everywhere I've dealt with, apart from the scammers, has been absolutely sweet. It gives me hope for the human race at a time when I, frankly, despair of us! ;-)

Cheers

MTM

'I was asleep beside you when you dreamed THAT?' K said to me the other month...

I make a point of getting up in the night to write down any interesting dreams before i forget them

Amazing the ideas that do work when you write them down :-)

I have written down some ideas for short stories though!!

This new sci fi book is almost at the half way stage, now. Hoping to finish it by the end of the month.

My short is getting more complicated. It's turning into the nascent beginnings of how the K'Barthan Underground and the Grongolian version first begin to find out about one another.

On the up side there's a simple little short involving The Pan of Hamgee chugging along nicely.

Onwards and upwards.

Yep, I've done just over 1,000 words on the story of how The Pan of Hamgee tried to top himself. I know what happens, too, so it's just a case of writing it up. I'm stopping now though as McMini has come in here to play with his lego, although so far, the main mission seems to involve farting at me.

Cheers

MTM

Just wait till you're really famous and the have a Pan of Hamgee lego figure!

Gingerlily - Mistress Lantern wrote: "Just wait till you're really famous and the have a Pan of Hamgee lego figure!"

Holy smokes yes! How cool would that be! Ooops I think I might have just done a little bit of wee!

The short story about him - and this one will be a short - has hit 2.1k now. That and 400 words on the other one is all I've done this week. But I'll take that. It's about 500 words each day, which is my target, I just prefer to wait until Friday and do 2/3 of it in one sitting. ;-)

Mary - https://minifigs.me
:)

OMG! Can you imagine The Banned Underground as lego figures????

The question is not, "Will Mary and Will weaken?" The question is, "Have they already contacted the company to put in their specifications?" :-)

So when are we going to see a lego Tallis?

And Mutt and Benor??

I must admit it's something that genuinely never occurred to me before now!

I'm still imagining The Pan of Hamgee with his hat!

The second sci fi has now blossomed to over 21K!

Will wrote: "The second sci fi has now blossomed to over 21K!"

With my new-found authority I can tell you firmly that that is a novella!

It just needs to grow up into a novel, now.

Water it well and feed it bullshit. ;)

Today I have been mostly clearing up sick. Actually it's not too bad, poor wee soul, he's thrown up 16 times in the last 24 hours. Today, after eating nothing and not hurling for four whole hours I gave him a flask of tea to sip and one pineapple chunk. It came straight back. Not sure how I am going to explain it to the library, two of the books have cleaned up beautifully but one is ... different.

A lot of washing done.

Jam made.

Nothing written.

Kath wrote: "Water it well and feed it bullshit. ;)"

:-)

A surprise 400 words and just saw your comment Kath. :-) made me chuckle.

Works for me ;)

I'm thinking of it like an unruly teenager, that needs a little time (and substantial amounts of alcohol) to grow up

Holy shizzle! 3,050 words. Floored. But dead chuffed.

Oh, well done!

M.T. wrote: "Holy shizzle! 3,050 words. Floored. But dead chuffed."

You're smokin'!

Just over 300 words today, not great, but better than yesterday's zero, lol :)

Going great guns, Mary! Well done

none today yet though. I am at the doc's worth my micro vomit comet. 32 chuck ups and rising since Sunday.

1235. I am plutzed but somehow managed to get my arse in the chair and do two hours when we got home from hospital. McMini is OK and a lot better temporarily while the anti sickness drugs are still in his system. We are stuffing him with high energy sugary boiled sweets and drinks to keep the blood sugar up.

A good day. The plumber is coming, so I got going right away, and managed 1156 almost finished words - most of a new scene - in one fell swoop. Okay, very SLOW fell swoop, and all the marks it had to hit were already in place, but this is very fast for me.

Given the drought I've had going due to meds, this is confirmation they're out of my system, and I'm slowly becoming myself again.

Much appreciated. I'm SO behind.

Now almost at 25K on the sci fi.

92 words today, but they were the last few in this read-through. It's gone back to my friendly copper to check the changes then it'll be ready for the editor.

Alicia wrote: "A good day. The plumber is coming, so I got going right away, and managed 1156 almost finished words - most of a new scene - in one fell swoop. Okay, very SLOW fell swoop, and all the marks it had ..."

Woot! Great going.

Thanks, MT.

It actually turned out better than I expected: this is the first time I've started a scene in the morning, and finished it by late afternoon!

1628 finished words; sort of. Will go through the chapter as a whole before sending anything to a beta reader, but it felt good to just start, and keep going (through several small meals and three naps).

Hope I get more of these days.

Alicia wrote: "Thanks, MT.

It actually turned out better than I expected: this is the first time I've started a scene in the morning, and finished it by late afternoon!

1628 finished words; sort of. Will go thr..."

So do I!

McMini is now very much better so there will be no access to the computer for the next four days until school on Monday. Lots we can do to keep us occupied though and I've done this week's writing target so that's alright. :-)

Cheers

MTM

Written absolutely loads but none of it - tell a lie - six words - is on a book!
Still, that one's done, till my editor tells me otherwise. That won't be till December!

Wrangling out a blurb for the next to be published at the moment. Definition of brain-ache!

Finished the first draft of the novella this morning and am reading it through. Remembered I probably ought to write a short story in the other series soon, so my mind has skipped off to that and doesn't want to think about the novella any more.

Not writing a blurb at present, though, I'm glad to say!