1539. Closing down...
Your word count today
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Count du jour: 1857. Down for the day. Off to do something real, like chop wood.
Only 823 words down today, but I'm on schedule with over 30,000 words written since April 22. If I don't falter (translation: get lazy), this draft will be done before my daughter-in-law and I leave for Scotland in September. I look forward to resting this story for a month while I concentrate on notes for Book IV, which starts in Scotland. Whee! I'm the kind of writer who travels overseas to do research, and it only took me until I was 71 to manage it. 
1287. Shutting her down and heading for the garden.
Stuart Dren
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I bet your garden looks amazing.
It was at its prime four seasons ago. Still a nice garden, but I've let several beds and borders return to lawn. I'm going to seed a good portion of another big bed in grass here in the next couple of weeks. Arthritis and intensive gardening tend to be at odds with one another, but I'll keep doing what I can as long as I can.
I hesitate to say anything, but my lawn and flower beds are off the hook this year. I have no idea why. I didn't do anything differently than any of other year. Standard seeding, fertilizing, pruning, etc. Just one of them years, I guess.
The weather this year has been insane, at least in this part of the country. I'm glad at least some of my perennials and bulbs survived.
We got your weather this year. I think it was you who posted the thing from the Wyoming meteorologist about how the moisture from an oceanic earthquake shifted all the shit a few thousand miles to the East. Google suggests that the insane snowfall we had over the winter made for a natural fertilizer and slow drip irrigator, but most of the humans I talk to say that's not a thing. Who to believe these days?
Rzero
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Snow contains nitrogen, so, yeah, fertilizes the soil. As to whether it is a slow drip irrigator: depends. Our winter snow has little water content and blows off or evaporates before it can do much irrigating. Spring snow is better. It's what ranchers really depend on for grass.
Snow trivia: snow acts as an insulator against bitterly cold temperature.
Yeah, east Texas and west Texas don't have a lot of things in common. You live out that way?
Four feet of it melted slowly into the grass here, haha. That's probably the ticket.
Yeah, snow is different Back East. I understand it often falls from up to down. Here is usuallly falls from side to side.
Rzero
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Yep. Just below the Pan Handle, the land of prairie dogs and tumbleweeds. I named the fictitious West Texas town in Curios Yellowgrass. It's supposed to be near the real city of Levelland. Both names are apt for the area.
Yeah, I've been through Levelland.
I set Book III on Red River in Red River County. Setting is based on a place once called Pecan Point. I think the river has scrambled that area pretty thoroughly over the last century or so. A person could go to sleep in Texas and wake up in Oklahoma.
I set Book III on Red River in Red River County. Setting is based on a place once called Pecan Point. I think the river has scrambled that area pretty thoroughly over the last century or so. A person could go to sleep in Texas and wake up in Oklahoma.
1251. Time to go feed the dogs.
It's sometimes as hard to stop at a reasonable place as it is to get started in the first place. I have to remind myself that wearing my brain and eyes out tonight will not contribute to tomorrow's production process.
It's sometimes as hard to stop at a reasonable place as it is to get started in the first place. I have to remind myself that wearing my brain and eyes out tonight will not contribute to tomorrow's production process.
1636, then out to water the roses. Resisting adding more now because I'm determined to develop better sleeping habits.
1433 words, but for a script/storyboard, not prose. Dunno if it counts.
It all counts. Words is words.
3,752. (For the week, not the day! Don't worry).
I had to re-do the village (really more of a tiny settlement) that my heroine is currently in, rehash the crisis it passed through, answer some questions about the provenance of her faith, and do some thinking about who she is and what she thinks about her family.
This also gave me some ideas to how she would deal with the settlement, and for a heroic speech she will deliver to inspire those around her.
I also wrote (last Sunday) a 1,940-word story about self-service checkouts, and what they would do if/when they developed sentience ... and it went into futuristic horror from that.
Huzzah! My first futuristic horror!
I had to re-do the village (really more of a tiny settlement) that my heroine is currently in, rehash the crisis it passed through, answer some questions about the provenance of her faith, and do some thinking about who she is and what she thinks about her family.
This also gave me some ideas to how she would deal with the settlement, and for a heroic speech she will deliver to inspire those around her.
I also wrote (last Sunday) a 1,940-word story about self-service checkouts, and what they would do if/when they developed sentience ... and it went into futuristic horror from that.
Huzzah! My first futuristic horror!
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