What I did on my saturday

1. Swilled evil tasting herbal potions. I have now perfected (and am intending to patent) the evil herbal potion swilling technique as follows:
a) Prepare evil herbal potion in medicine glass. Relocate to bathroom. Have bottle of water on hand. Also mouthwash.
b) Do shot of evil herbal potion while holding nose (note DO NOT LET GO OF NOSE)
c) Chug half a bottle of water while still holding nose (nose holding is KEY)
d) Use mouthwash and rinse mouth well while STILL holding nose.
e) Spit out mouthwash and drink more water. A lot of water.

2. Played around with this because I figured I should finally get around to having a website, having relied on this blog for a while now. And also, you know, the 'if you build it, they will come,' theory of publication lol

3. Watched Ratatouille (cuteness).

4. Made soup because along with evil herbal potion, there is evil diet and really chicken and vegetables and rice cakes is about it. So variety of form is essential.

5. The writing thing. See below.

Progress - Witch 1

New pages - Ten
Intriguing things - Rising to the occasion
Annoyances - Non linear brain
Music - Mika - Happy ending/Over my shoulder. iPod.
Linear/Non-linear - Non and non and non.
Location - Alphie on the couch. Both couches in fact.
Taking care of Mel - Meditation. Evil herbal potions. Very boring food.
Muse food - Ratatouille. Cooking. Website toying.

Four at a time

Not quite as many as I hoped for today but all my running around this morning took longer than expected, then I had to go grocery shopping to stock up on the limited things that I'm allowed to eat for the next two weeks courtesy of the naturopath (including no caffeine, and no chocolate...doesn't she know I'm at the end of a book?? I keep reminding myself it's short term pain for long term gain but so far I remain unconvinced : ) ). After all of that, the cold reasserted itself and I got the "must lie on couch nows". Still a thousand words is a thousand words. Hopefully I can have two good days tomorrow and Sunday and hit 70k.

Progress - Witch 1

New pages - Four
Intriguing things - Fire
Annoyances - Not enough writing time today
Music - Jean Michael Jarre - Oxygene
Linear/Non-linear - Linear
Location - Alphie in a cafe and Scrivener at the desk
Taking care of Mel - Massage.
Muse food - Window shopping. Book deliveries.

And again

Man, sorry if this has been a boring week of posts but combining end of book push with cold-induced head fog doesn't make for sparkling repartee.

Today, I decided I'd top off the cold with a flu vacc then spent the afternoon shivering. Feeling better again now, so hopefully I'll just escape with a sore arm tomorrow. I've realised this seems to happen to me every year. Like clockwork, the day or so before I'm due for my flu shot, I get a cold. Weird. Or maybe just a coincidence that this is a busy-ish time of year for the day job and the weather usually starts being schizophrenic and therefore I get run down.

Anyway, today is not exactly a huge page count but given my mental state (plus the fact that my foggy brain decided tonight would be a good night to reconsider the whole I need a website issue and go investigating on the internet and playing with templates and hey presto, instant time sink) I'll take it. Tomorrow I've got a date with the naturopath and a massage and lunch in the city with nice gaps between each so I'll take the alphie and the iPod and write in between if I can find a good place. I'm not big on the whole writing in cafes thing but I'll give it a go. But I also need to get up early to accomplish all that, so it's another early night.

Progress - Witch 1

New pages - Four
Intriguing things - Cranky Mr Hero
Annoyances - Cranky Mr Hero
Music - Nothing.
Linear/Non-linear - Linear
Location - Alphie on the couch.
Taking care of Mel - Meditation. Flu vacc
Muse food - Playing with web sites and looking at pretty templates.

The daily report

Well I can't entirely blame late night phone calls for my sleepy state. Tossed and turned last night and woke up coughing and spluttering with some sort of cold. Ick.
Just did an experiment with minimising the Scrivener screen and using Think to try and mimic an more alphie experience at the computer (mostly to be able to use the ergonomic keyboard to keep the hands happier). Not quite the same (could only get the screen down to about ten lines rather than four) but it did seem to be a bit faster. One to remember.

Hope no-one got blown away in Melbourne's wild weather today...next time WA has a hurricane, they can keep the tail to themselves, thanks!

Anyway, the result...

Progress - Witch 1

New pages - Six
Intriguing things - Confessions
Annoyances - Bugs
Music - Mika Happy Ending/Over My Shoulder. No headphones.
Linear/Non-linear - Linear (or rather back to where I was before last night's leap ahead).
Location - The desk. Scrivener as above
Taking care of Mel - Sleeping.
Muse food - Sneezing? Does sneezing and coughing count? Reading about Morocco. Soon, back to bed.

It must be bedtime

A note to the universe. I would like to get off whatever list I'm on that makes morons ring my phone number in the middle of the night. Then hang up after two rings! Think about the time before dialling, people. One am adrenalin jolts that mean tossing and turning the rest of the night are surplus to current requirements, as are crazy days at the day job.

But I have written something. God knows what I'll think of it in the morning but it's something.

Progress - Witch 1

New pages - Four
Intriguing things - Witchy police
Annoyances - Brain fried
Music - Nothing.
Linear/Non-linear - Non
Location - Alphie on couch.
Taking care of Mel - A hair cut.
Muse food - Muses might get some reading in bed..if I can stay awake