Progress and Productivity

Today I sat down and wrote over 5000 words on a short story I'd been noodling on for a week, thereby completing it. Total count: about 6200 words. Hot damn, I say. It was the first new material I'd composed (apart from editorial repairs on Inexplicables) in months.

It was tough getting started after such a long dry spell, but once I sat down and forced the matter...everything just fell out - like I'd whacked a pinata. A very slow pinata. One which took about six hours to empty. Regardless, I am pleased.

Not much else to report today. Received some more UK editions of Four and Twenty Blackbirds in the mail, as well as a fat stack of bookplates for the same - which I promised to sign and ship back to England sooner rather than later. So I guess I know what I'm doing while I watch TV tonight.