OMG, I'm tired. Time to stop writing. Time to sleep. (Why am I always hungry at bedtime? Sigh.) Wrote 5,092 words today on DDD. Since I wrote extra, now I only need 3,500 words/day to finish on time.

I made some progress today. Took care of some self-publishing business. Got more to do. Wrote 4,721 words on DDD today. If I keep this up, things will be finished on schedule. This is a better pace for me right now.

Jana and her beautiful whiskers.

Played some WoW tonight. Ran a delve. Doing a good job of staying out of sh*t on the floor and not dying. Wrote 1,020 words on DDD v4 tonight. Had planned on writing more today but I'm really worried about tomorrow.

Played WoW tonight. Finished up my July Trading Post and got my rocket mount. Then I finished up a questline and got a ground mount. Then I finished my writing for the day. Didn't edit, though. Wrote 2,009 new words on DDD v4.

wouldn't open again. And, then, the access I was supposed to be granted to another program still didn't work even though I was assured I had access. All in all, a stressful and tiring day. Edited and wrote both this morning and tonight. 1,015 words for today on DDD v4.

Edited a lot on DDD v4 today. Wrote 2,702 new words on DDD v4. Played WoW Midnight and completed a number of quests. Didn't run a delve tonight. Not seeing well and last night, when I ran one with vision troubles, I got frustrated even though I never died.

I spent most of my day and night working on editing v4 of DDD. Stopped for a nap during the afternoon. Watched half of Independence Day tonight. 2,558 new words written on DDD v4 and quite a bit edited.

Played some WoW tonight. Did some quests for chests and coffer key fragments. Ran one delve. Didn't die. Did well staying out of sh*t on the ground. Improving with each one I run. Learning not to depend on bad eye. Edited on DDD v4 today and wrote 1,007 new words.

Spent the last 3 hours of work dealing with IT and a problem with a program that suddenly refused to open. Daughter got her quarterly bonus from her awesome job and took us out to dinner tonight. Played a few WoW quests when I got home. Edited more on DDD v4 today/tonight and wrote 513 new words.

My head is pounding and reminding me that it's TIME TO GO TO BED because I've been staying up too late recently. Played some WoW. I didn't feel like running a delve, but I worked on my July trading post. Today, I started editing v4 of DDD and I also wrote 553 new words. Hope to finish this month.

Sakura eats like a little piggy now. Thank heavens. Her lips are good. Her food allergy treated with single protein food. Some days, she's tired. Some days, she's frisky. She'll be 15 this fall.

Too many things happening in real life. Trying not to feel overwhelmed. Watched 2010 tonight. I love that movie. Wrote some new words for the DDD edit today.

Did some editing on DDD today. Mostly this morning since tonight was a disaster. Cut out 3,672 words. Wrote a few but haven't put them into the document so I'm not going to count them yet.

Watched Big Trouble in Little China tonight. Love that movie. Edited DDD today. Added 1,000 words. Cut 713 words. Started one of the new plot threads that will ultimately merge with an established plot thread later in the story.

Worked a lot on the DDD edit today. It doesn't look like it, but I cut quite a few words. I added part of a scene. Made a lot of notes for a couple of threads I intend to add that will carry some heavy story weight. Got some feedback I REALLY appreciated on Chapt 1. Will implement this weekend.

Worked on editing DDD today. Deleted a lot. Added a lot. Edited a lot. Changed the direction of the first few chapters. I am now 5% done with editing. Not a lot, but finally progressing from beginning to end instead of writing new scenes for other parts of the novel.

Something positive in this crazy world. Kitties with catnip pickles.

It's finished! It's finished before midnight! I wrote 6,124 words on Dumps, Dives & Divas tonight and the novel is now FINISHED at 112,202 words. Hooray!

My brain is numb, so it's definitely time for me to stop writing and go to bed. I wrote 5,048 words on DDD today. One more day to finish. I didn't get quite as far as I'd hoped today, but I just have a couple of scenes to finish today's work and then the scenes leading up to the climax tomorrow.

Wrote 4,808 words on DDD. Writing brain surprised me again. Took me where I wanted to go via a different direction than I'd had in mind. Passed the 100,000 goal, which is common for my books. I normally end up 108,000 - 110,000.

I have so much more I want to write tonight, but I cannot write any more. I have a HUGE headache, and I need to get to bed. I will pick up where I left off tonight before I start work in the morning. I wrote 8,056 words on DDD today. 3 more days to finish.

Not as many words as yesterday, but I did manage 3,114. Tomorrow is another day. Perhaps I can stay home more and write more.

My brain is still writing story scenes, but it takes too much energy to translate them into Word at this point. I will continue writing in the morning. Word count goal today was 3,500 words. I ended up writing 6,035 and I see where we're going to the next big plot point. Will hit it tomorrow.

I thought I'd end up writing more, but I did a lot today and I'm very tired. So, I shall sleep and write harder tomorrow. It was a nice day. All the rainbows! And brunch was amazing. They even had a crepe station. (Not that I can eat crepes. I was just impressed.) Wrote 1,685 words on DDD.

Managed to write 1,046 words on DDD in spite of all afternoon shopping and dinner tonight.

This morning was exciting as I finished my back cover copy. As the day wore on, though, weariness overcame me. Last night was a restless night. I wrote 1,003 words on DDD tonight. I need to catch up soon if I'm going to finish the novel this year.

I labored so much on the summary/synopsis over the weekend that my brain turned to mush. I DID work on a couple more versions today and then said, no more for now. I played some Legion Remix tonight. I really needed that. And I wrote 1,246 words on DDD. Looking forward to the long weekend.

I ended up on version 11 tonight of my summary, and then my brain turned to mush, and I had to work on something else. The last summary is more like what I need. Shorter. The previous versions could be used for something else. Wrote 519 words on DDD and, whew, lots on summaries/synopses today.