(personal/writing/updates/to-do) It's been a looong week.

Seriously. And now, on the tail end of the meds for the sinus infection and double ear infection (the strep test came back negative), I'm FINALLY feeling like I might actually be able to start doing things.

We went to Black Rose Ball yesterday, and with the driving and the stupid time change (I hate Daylight Savings Time with a passion), I didn't get up until 1 pm today. So far, I have watched the Red Sox (we're currently losing, sadly, but the game isn't over yet), taken a bath and eaten two slices of BBQ Chicken pizza. I'm finally starting to feel a bit human and ready to do stuffs.

So, we have an actual to-do list today, because I have things I want to do. Including cooking. And maybe baking.

To-Do on a Lazy Sunday:
- Morning Pages
- Metrics Blog Post from the first two months of the year
- Rewrite "The Sun Never Sets"
- Make 1 batch of pizza dough In the bread machine! I adore my bread machine for making dough, seriously.
- Make Stromboli for the week
- Make Empanadas for the week must do both of these again. So damn good!
- Fold laundry and put it away
- Edit more for Spells and Swashbucklers

Hmm. I think I'll be getting my arse in gear fairly soon. First, I need tea. Yes, tea.

Oh, and I almost forgot! I have a new cousin! Harland McKenna was born yesterday morning! I don't have the specifics with me, but he's a healthy baby boy, so congrats to my cousin Stacia!!!

(writing/metrics) The First Two Months of 2011

So this year, I've been trying to keep track of how much and how often I'm writing. I love Excel spreadsheets, so I have one made up, a sheet for each month, tracking my various projects and when I'm working on them, and also when I'm doing my Morning Pages. I haven't even really added up any totals for the year yet, so I'll be interested to see how I'm doing. I feel like I haven't really done anything, but who knows.

Let's see what the spreadsheets say.

January 2011:
Wrote 5 days
Morning Pages: 2 days
Projects worked on: Tales of the Scorned Lady, Last Rites
Total Words: 3059

Ugh.

February 2011:
Wrote 8 days
Morning Pages: 6 days
Projects worked on: Tales of the Scorned Lady, Last Rites, The Sun Never Sets
Total Words: 12467

Better, but not great.

Total words for the year: 15526

I need to get better. This is why I don't have things to submit, or to even try and Kindle on my own. I'M NOT WRITING ENOUGH.

This needs to change, obviously. And just as obviously, when I write my morning pages, I tend to write other things. Ergo, I need to write more morning pages.

The goal for the next week: get up every morning. Get tea. And then go into the Lair, pull up my morning pages blog, and write my morning pages. Then, open one of the WIPs and write 350 words.

I'll be reporting back here on how I do.

(metrics) Rewrite for The Sun Never Sets is done!

And the story is much better. Tee and Pip made some great suggestions, and I think they'll like what I came up with. I hope so, anyways. :)

Starting Count: 3630
Ending Count: 5170
Net Gain: +1540
Current Word MTD count: 1540

Since I was adding things into the story, there's no real starting and ending line. And all the darlings, well, they were spoilers. :P So you'll just have to wait to listen to the anthology when it comes out.