10K

I cranked out 10,000 words today on the SF novel, averaging around 1282 words an hour. I was pleased by that rate, which is pretty typical for me, in terms of output. I'm a little brain-fried at the moment, but got a nice start on the piece. I'd like to make it ~100,000 words, so it's a good-sized book, which feels about right with a SF novel.

It starts

I'm starting that SF book this morning, in a few minutes, in fact. I'm not done finalizing the other book, but I figure I can work on both -- bang out several thousand words on the newbie, and then finish finalizing the other. The more, the merrier.

I also have to do my taxes. I meant to do them last weekend, but got sidetracked by that utilities SNAFU, got that sorted out, so now I can focus on the other.

We got a little snow last night; nothing major, just maybe an inch or two, which at least makes the city a little prettier for the moment (I love the city, but, as I said before, late winter/early spring is an ugly time for it, just because of the detritus about).

I think I'm going to dig out an old HP printer I have in storage and get it up and running again. Exene's negligence led to that printer being destroyed (thanks to B2 exuberantly getting his hands on it and disabling it). It was a discontinued printer, and I managed to find another one at a resale place and use parts from that one to restore the original, although because that was tied to the old computer, and it was before Exene and I split, that got kind of lost in the shuffle. Anyway, I'm going to bring that sucker up and try to get it up and running again, this time on the new computer. Reason being, I have a couple of multipacks of inkjet cartridges for the old one that I'd gotten right before Printergate happened, and also because that printer could print for a very long time with those cartridges. Since ink for printers is like gold (sure seems that way), I have a vested interest in getting that sucker back online.