End of week,\u00a0 Book IV is just over 31,700.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I made it to 10,000 (the week’s goal) by midnight Thursday and sort of loafed along on Friday and today.<\/p>\n
I had other writing to do (and other writing that must be turned in this coming week may slow me again.\u00a0\u00a0 Don’t panic, though–the book isn’t drying up and I won’t fail to go after that daily goal.)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 One of the “other writing” bits is writing the introduction for The Ladies of Trade Town<\/em>, an anthology\u00a0 my friend Lee Martindale is bringing out.\u00a0\u00a0 Lee’s a writer and editor, an officer of SFWA, and a member of the SFWA Musketeers (writers with swords…you should be very, very afraid. )\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Since I couldn’t write a story for that anthology (the Paksworld books take up my entire fiction-writing brain), I jumped at the chance to write the intro.\u00a0\u00a0 It’s almost done.<\/p>\n Then there’s the annual report on the wildlife management thing.\u00a0\u00a0 If this stupid weather-migraine will kindly depart, I’ll get going again on that after church tomorrow.<\/p>\n On the nonwriting side of things, part of the loafing along yesterday allowed me to walk down to the woods,\u00a0 and part of it today allowed me to work outside in the yard and vegetable garden (where the first radishes have poked out their cotyledons.)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I’ve pruned dead limbs off of a line of junipers,\u00a0 watered the planted rows,\u00a0 pruned back the exuberant Lady Banks rose (we need to keep a path open along the east fence)\u00a0 and so on.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And we got to eat lunch outside with a touch of elegance: a real tablecloth on the picnic table my husband built last summer,\u00a0 real dishes and glasses, and real napkins.\u00a0\u00a0 Lunch was sandwiches, but still.<\/p>\n Now to bed so I can get up at six and be on time for rehearsal before the first service tomorrow.\u00a0\u00a0 Hope the headache’s gone by then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" End of week,\u00a0 Book IV is just over 31,700.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I made it to 10,000 (the week’s goal) by midnight Thursday and sort of loafed along on Friday and today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,5],"tags":[112,20,107],"class_list":["post-1019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-beyond-writing","category-the-writing-life","tag-life-beyond-writing","tag-progress-report","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions\/1020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}