I'm very close to finishing "In Jurong." I got a lot of work done on it in the last couple of days, and am currently up to about 3700 words. A thousand of those were done last night, after dinner. I did significant work on the rest of the thesis itself yesterday after work, design- and layout-wise, but didn't get any writing done, so while Janet watched American Idol last night, I took the iBook over to Borders and wrote for an hour and a half.

To keep the momentum going, I've taken the morning off of work to continue the wordage. After dropping off Janet at her office, I headed over to Cup A Joe near campus (my all-time favorite coffeehouse to write at), got a cup of English Breakfast, busted out the iBook, wrote a mythologism, and got ready to hunker back into my imagined world of the ersatz and transformed Jurong Birdpark.

I think I'm about halfway through the story at this point. Originally, I was thinking it would only be about 5,000 words, but now it'll be close to 8,000. I'm throwing in a lot of Buddhist theory, some big questions about identity and existence, as well as some kick-ass elemental magic. I'm having a lot of fun with it right now.

This afternoon, I'll head over to Chapel Hill to look at the proofs for Off the Map, and will also need to take Becca back to the vet for a checkup, so I want to make sure I get as much writing done this morning as I can. The wireless connection gets turned off as soon as I post this, to avoid the temptations and distractions of the Interthing.

Wish me luck.

Now Reading:
Four Stories Till the End by Zoran Zivkovic

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3

Zines/Graphic Novels/Fiction Mags Read This Year:
2