word count and subs

[julesjones]

Over the last two weeks I have not met my goal of writing minimum 300 words/day on the fiction. It's not just that I had a lot of trouble writing happysex stuff with what was going on in the outside world--I've had other stuff that had to take priority. Fortunately rather more cheerful stuff that was a good distraction from watching a city be wiped off the map. So word count was 650 and 500 words last Saturday and Sunday, 950 on Thursday, and 500 yesterday. Just passed 9000 words, and the guys have finally mentioned to one another that they fancy each other. Maybe they'll get around to having sex some time soon. And then I can write the post-coital purring scene, in which the human discovers one of the advantages of shagging Felis sapiens -- leaving your partner purring in satisfaction is not metaphorical when he's a six foot tall intelligent biped felinoid.

Sent a submission to Lust for Life yesterday. Submissions close on the 15th if anyone else is interested.

I've installed Filezilla on watervole's computer, which means that I should be able to get some updates done on my website now. My laptop refuses to talk to the local LAN, amongst its many and varied forms of crankiness, so if I want broadband access rather than metered dialup I have to use her machine.

Still need to sort out my booking for the flight home, but it's looking as if I'll be in the UK for another two weeks or so. Once I've confirmed that I'll consider plans for going Up North for a few days.

And I should probably mention that it's all watervole's fault that the character names in First Footer look suspiciously like they were culled from my flist. I mutter about needing more names and not having my Big File Of Names on the laptop, and she suggests suitable fannish-sounding names. Which, not entirely by coincidence, match people we know. Though she didn't know that I know a single gay guy in his late twenties by the name of Matthew...