AETW: 906
“Iris2”: 226
“Innocence”: 24

I’ve spent most of the day cleaning off the desk. Normally I keep it reasonably tidy, but with all the travelling we’ve been doing, everything exploded. I still have a couple of “to do” piles, but in the process I got a lot done: filing, paying bills, printing, making lists, and so forth.

Yeah, I must have PMT.

I wrote 18,736 words in July. I’d been hoping to break 20K; as it is, for the Dare I should have hit 31K. But I’ve been moving steadily ahead on AETW, and I wrote two stories and one vignette. Overall, not too shabby.

Drat! The Orange County chapter of RWA is having their conference on the same weekend as Great Western War.

And as I work on AETW, I wish I still had my Comparative Law book… You never know what to keep and what to throw away. Do I want to say “barrister”? Black’s Law Dictionary (which I did wisely keep) isn’t clear.

I just received an e-mail that I am the Top Journalscape Poster for July, because I “hit number 1 in the Most Number of Posts category over the last month”. Well! I didn’t even know there was a contest! At least this proves I’m writing _something_! A public thanks to Kenny and Jenn for Journalscape. They rock.

Argh. The Caid list has been swamped for several days with people debating the BoD’s recent suggestion of adding a non-member surcharge because the SCA isn’t doing well financially. We’re one of the only groups that doesn’t charge people a thing to come and play—forever, if they want to mooch that long. (Did I give my stance away with that comment?) I’m deleting all the messages before I read them, because reading them raises my blood pressure and makes me cranky. I’m biting my tongue and not asking if all of these people who are going on and on and on actually wrote to the BoD back when they were asking for suggestions and opinions. (I meant to, and didn’t. Which is one of the reasons I’m not jumping on the bandwagon now. Although I’m tempted to write to the BoD and say I support this idea. Oops, really gave myself away that time! They just have to sort out what “official event” really means, because Corpora and the Society Publications Policy are contradictory.)

There. Done writing for the day. Ended a scene in AETW; the next one will be from Corwin’s pov, which I haven’t done in awhile. I’ve set up Iris2 (the second vignette of mine for “Under a Double Rainbow” with Teresa) and should be able to crank through it tomorrow. (We’ve also figured out what my third vignette will be.) Although the last three days have been great word-wise, I need to pick up the pace to keep up with the Dare.

But now, to sleep!