20 pounds of cat on your chest can feel like a heart attack in your dreams...

1700 new words on the page yesterday for Pack of Lies, and I'm though a scene that was really hard to write. That particular scene needed a lot of repressed emotion packed into it, but for me to write it I had to open up the tap...and then squeeze it back into repressed state as I wrote. Like using a snorkeling breathing tube while playing the harmonica. Okay, not at all like that. But difficult.

I really want to get to the chasing-and-shooting part of this book already. Hopefully today, if Venec co-operates.


A report on the BVC Chat Sunday night is up here: http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog&id=14411 And I'm pleased [and relieved] to announce that the final testing on the premium content got green across the board this weekend, so there will be additional material going up Very Soon Now. Yes, that includes the "backstory" for P.B. Updates when they happen. :-)


Random Bits:

RiP Alfred Knopf Jr., aged 90, founder of Atheneum. Died Saturday.

Zagats is expanding into....doctor's guides. Oh, this could get ugly...

Sam Donaldson has announced his retirement from ABC News.

Anybody got any other Random Bits to share?

"News flash! There are stupid people on the Internet!"

(quote courtesy of kradical)

Despite my being cranky all over the Internet (saying Stupid Things about the economy -- "everyone should just walk away from their debts! That will make it all better! And if you disagree with me you're a Republican!" -- will annoy me. Srsly) it ended up being a 2900 3400 word day, which doesn't suck.

And I got to use "a horny faun" and "Kierkegaard" in the same paragraph. That made me feel much better.

(yes, Danny is in this book. I love Danny. He and Bonnie play so very well together, it's like I created him for that very purpose. I didn't, but I should have)

I may push for those extra hundred words, to round it off. Otherwise, tonight there is beef stew, and wine, and "Holiday" on dvd. *bliss*