Words Written: Chloe 890
Exercise: ow still

Three stories submitted today—the one with Sarah, and two out of three that have been returned recently. A good way to start the day.

Overall, it’s been a good month. I wrote about 40K words—not as much as I’d planned, but a nice chunk that I’m proud of. I got seven new stories in the mail (five solo, two collab). I started two novels (one solo, one collab). Things are poised for February.

First, I need to get the beginning of Chloe off to Teresa. Actually, I should be able to do that today. Then, I need to pull together a proposal for Angelika (synopsis plus a reasonably clean first 10K words), run it by Teresa for a quick check, and send it out. I might be able to finish that today. I’ve got a couple of short stories to write for upcoming anthos. I want to pull some languishing stories (never finished, or written for an antho and now need something redone, or even finished and trashed in the critique-group-from hell) and get them in the mail. (This project will be spread over several months.) And it’s time to start working on some more BattleTech stories. I’ve been organizing my materials, and plan to spend an hour a day reading/researching.

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Between running errands that took longer than expected and focusing in on some ABC-CLIO stuff, I got less writing done today than planned. However, the beginning of Chloe is out the door to Teresa, so that’s very good. Tomorrow, Angelika and some sort story work.

In other news, my back still hurts but is definitely getting better, and I went out today and bought new Reeboks (two pair, in fact—they had a buy-one-pair, get-one-pair-for-half-price sale). Sooo comfortable. I wore them out of the store, instructing the salesdude to throw out my old ones. (That was hard. They had no support left and were beat up, but they were still wearable, with no holes, and a bad habit I’ve retained from my childhood is that you don’t throw out stuff until its unusable. It was hard for me to admit that these were “unusable,” despite my having to hobble around for the past two days. Bad habit. I’ve sent it to bed without any supper.)

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