Another hailstorm, and a cold snap. The bridge in the garden is coated in ice granules and the pond is thinly skinned with ice….
And what did we get last night?
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And the reason that 111,326 doesn’t get larger? I’m working like fury, but I’m peeling out outline and adding new stuff in such equal measure it stays pretty steady in word count.
CJ, you must make a spectacular outline! For your word count to remain steady at the same rate your outline decreases, all the while you’re “working like fury,” must require a very wordy outline. I would love to know how you do your outlining. Does it amount to a first draft of your novel?
I just finished *Serpent’s Reach*, which is now my favorite short novel. Did you conceive that whole story in outline form before writing it? Wow.
Our weather has finally improved, which means I survived the winter without a working furnace. I had 3 space heaters. Only one lasted all the way through the winter.
Today was ‘clean up the desk’ day so I can seriously get to work on my next novel. I just released a book on Smashwords for Read an Ebook week (was March 4-10) and now I’m ready to turn seriously to the next work.
I love writing. What a wonderful world we have!
The new novel is The Servant Girl:
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/139164
Yay! You know, I think writers who are regular contributors to this site SHOULD BE permitted a discrete post with the link to said book….I mean, people here like to read, eh?
Thank you. I am so looking forward to the new Foreigner book! And knowing you almost have another one done is just great! Glad to hear that Jane is back at work, too. Tell her she can’t do any more major house remakes until she has another book for Zette to read! (grin)
Yes, absolutely writers who are regular posters here should be able to provide discrete links to their work!
It’s nicer than last week, but I still have a vat of goulash bubbling on the stove today. It will probably be goulash weather until the end of the month, at least.
We got hammered today, and didn’t need to go to a bar for it. The low is still right off the coast. Saying we could get some valley-floor snow showers, again.
We had a gorgeous weekend. My heating never came on again after Sunday lunch time. Been a bit foggy and slightly damp since then (not damp enough unfortunately). Plenty warm enough though. I think I can probably put even my lightweight walking gloves away now.
But what we need is rain. Lots of it 🙁
Too bad we can’t send some your way. The Puget Sound area has more than enough! We’ve had some nice days but definitely the west side of the Cascades are living up to it’s soggy reputation! Hope some of this scoots your way!
Thankfully no snow though, although last Friday nite, we did have a weird bit of snow with hail in it. I don’t recall ever seeing something like that here before (not that I’m all that attentive…)
Looks as if at least it’s going to cloud up for you—here’s hoping the next system gives you that rain.
Warm here, yesterday was a record breaker, in fact. Cloudy with half hearted rain today. It’s nice to go out and decide what we are going to do for yard projects…..all of which will be fairly low key. Winter maybe over. (said very quietly with toes crossed)
Mouse lovers will like this! Cracked me up! A Kitty exercises uncommon restraint.
I think that’s a rat. A greedy one!
Here’s another amazing one. The owl and the pussy cat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iqmba7npY8g
It can’t be taken for granted here — we have had blizzards dropping 24 inches of snow overnight in March and early April — but right now it’s lovely, in the 60’s, sunny, windy, but that’s normal here. I have half opened windows, and can hear birdsong, many more birds than we had even a week ago. They think it’s spring.
And I’m taking the afternoon off because the mailman finally brought me my copy of Intruder! The timing is perfect; I reread Betrayer and then Conspirator and Deceiver too, finishing Deceiver over morning coffee today. So I’m ready!
It’s extremely windy here (when isn’t it in NE Oklahoma?) and the trees are all in flower spreading their pollen just everywhere. I’m reduced to taking a lot of pills and staying inside.
I don’t know if we are lucky or not…we had to turn on our AC two days ago. It’s been raining off and on; but the rain hasn’t dropped the temperature even by a degree.
Though it has cemented the pine pollen to the cars very handily.
There are times I like being in the South. Right now isn’t one of them. I’d take snow over pollen storms any day!
Shudder. Actually—the Pacific NW does get pollen-storms in some places, in areas where trees let loose all together on a gust of wind. It can be calm for a week—then whoosh! and the air turns yellow. Fortunately this is not in Spokane itself, but in some valleys where there’s a stand of some species that does this sort of thing.
Mmmm… mango season or vog… mango season or vog. At least mangoes are usually done pollinating by the end of February; vog hath no season.