After two lovely, lazy days on the beach, I came home, and wrote about 1k on ConSensual. That one's now over 50k words and hurrying on to the insanity of the final sequence - which is likely to be fairly long all by itself given what's going on there.

Some of the highlights of the weekend:
- jacuzzi the perfect size for two
- walking on the boardwalk.
- American Beach House architecture, completely with candy colors or earth tones, lots of wood or something like it, and BIG decks. I never knew you could have a desert of them. Block after block after block of nothing but beach houses with holiday rental signs and too-perfect-to-be-lived-in appearance. Lots of people around, walking dogs, cycling, going to and from the beach, but stuffed if I know where they get their groceries, or if they eat out, where they go.

Now that I'm home, I've had much velcro from one cat, and am being shunned by the other. We will eventually be forgiven, but not just yet.

Writing progress two days running. That's got to be something of a record :)

800-some words on ConSensual, in which convention costuming is displayed and commented on. And the competition hasn't even started yet.

The phrase "nudity is not a costume" will be used somewhere, I'm just not sure where, yet.

The weekends are too short. I need to get ready for the work week and put the nice shiny really bad taste SFF costumes away.

Back to it after mid-week upheavals and phone calls derailing anything resembling the ability to write. Finished the current chapter of Long Haul and sent it to first readers.

Progress: 1200-ish words.

In other news, I have a kitty showing tummy and doing his very best to convince me I want to rub it.

Clocked a smidge under 1000 words on Long Haul today.

Not bad, considering I was also juggling several IM conversations and I"m still recovering from last week's work feralness.

And now to bed, before I fall over - always a possibility for the narcoleptic.

350-odd words on Long Haul today before creative trainwreck occurred.

Some phone calls completely derail my ability to write. I've got to get past this, although stuffed if I know how.

Shortish chapter finished on Consensual.

Progress for the day: about 2k words, bringing ConSensual to 47.5k

For a relatively small town museum, not bad. Arboretum makes a nice walk despite very sticky weather. Now to try to write.

I really need to update this more often - maybe I will if I use a client rather than going to the website. We'll see.

Since sarahahoyt posted pictures of her adorable cats, I have to post photos of our two. The gray and white one is 18 months old and rejoices in the name Little Bugger. The part-Siamese, part-Persian, part who knows what is Shani, the elderly lady cat who is also my icon.



No, this wasn't posed. I just walked into the bedroom and this was there.

Cute, aren't they?

Honestly, my life vanishes down the s-bend more times than a dog has fleas.

This time? A major client requiring redesign on the fly together with getting infested by a very insistent new novel. Oh, and having my computer crap out on me yesterday. Can I get a time-out please? I really do not need this.

In other news, I'm trolling the internet for odd stuff about daily life of late 15th century Wallachian royalty, the heaters have come out and the cats are positioning themselves for the greatest warmth they can get. My computer is mostly back, although I'm sure I'll be finding stuff I missed for months.

And yes, I'm writing Dracula's autobiography. The things my mind does when I don't supervise it are scary sometimes.