Thud: duellist

Progress: Thursday, January 3, 2008

The duellist of Alusind

Words today: 500
Words total: 2,500

Reason for stopping: more than quota, meatpuppet needs sleep.
Exercise: short walk
Darling du jour: "Dead bodies generally are [quiet], Vollier." Ramon pushed sweaty hair back from his forehead and gave the sergeant half a grin. "One of the few good things about them: they don't tend to start riots. Now, before the heat gets worse, shall we examine the corpse?"

This character thinks he's funny. He's going to pay for that later.

Tyop du jour: contsable for constable
Words MS Word doesn't know: whuffed, m'lord
Research: Mediterranean trees
Mean things: rotting corpse, high summer heat

Books in progress: textbooks, Louise Bruit Zaidman and Pauline Schmitt Pantel (English translation by Paul Cartledge), Religion in the Ancient Greek City, Tobias Bucknell, Crystal Rain.

The glamour: Essay, commuting. And snow!

No, really. Snow!

Thud: duellist

Progress: Thursday, January 3, 2008

The duellist of Alusind

Words today: 500
Words total: 2,500

Reason for stopping: more than quota, meatpuppet needs sleep.
Exercise: short walk
Darling du jour: "Dead bodies generally are [quiet], Vollier." Ramon pushed sweaty hair back from his forehead and gave the sergeant half a grin. "One of the few good things about them: they don't tend to start riots. Now, before the heat gets worse, shall we examine the corpse?"

This character thinks he's funny. He's going to pay for that later.

Tyop du jour: contsable for constable
Words MS Word doesn't know: whuffed, m'lord
Research: Mediterranean trees
Mean things: rotting corpse, high summer heat

Books in progress: textbooks, Louise Bruit Zaidman and Pauline Schmitt Pantel (English translation by Paul Cartledge), Religion in the Ancient Greek City, Tobias Bucknell, Crystal Rain.

The glamour: Essay, commuting. And snow!

No, really. Snow!

(no subject)

Happy birthday, desperance!

(no subject)

Happy birthday, desperance!

Thud: duellist

Progress: Friday, January 4, 2008

The duellist of Alusind

Words today: 500
Words total: 3,000

Reason for stopping: more than quota
Exercise: short walk
Darling du jour:

Ramon could rule the death an accident or a suicide and go back to the shade of the watch-house now, if he wished, and no one who mattered would ever care otherwise.
But that's not justice, is it?
Instead, he touched cold cheeks with his fingertips, lifted the dead man's arm.

Not only does this guy think he's funny, he also thinks he's Good. He'll pay for not being nearly cynical enough.

Tyop du jour: N/A
Words MS Word doesn't know: lividity, taverner
Research: rigor mortis, lividity, the effect of insects on dead bodies
Mean things: still rotting corpse, high summer heat

Books in progress: textbooks, Louise Bruit Zaidman and Pauline Schmitt Pantel (English translation by Paul Cartledge), Religion in the Ancient Greek City, Tobias Bucknell, Crystal Rain.

The glamour: More essay, more commuting. Cold weather.


...You know, this book has been unusually good to me since I started rewriting it. (This makes me worried.) I even know, now, why necromancy is absolutely verboten in the city. Ancestor cult!

(Trust me, it makes sense in my head.)

Thud: duellist

Progress: Friday, January 4, 2008

The duellist of Alusind

Words today: 500
Words total: 3,000

Reason for stopping: more than quota
Exercise: short walk
Darling du jour:

Ramon could rule the death an accident or a suicide and go back to the shade of the watch-house now, if he wished, and no one who mattered would ever care otherwise.
But that's not justice, is it?
Instead, he touched cold cheeks with his fingertips, lifted the dead man's arm.

Not only does this guy think he's funny, he also thinks he's Good. He'll pay for not being nearly cynical enough.

Tyop du jour: N/A
Words MS Word doesn't know: lividity, taverner
Research: rigor mortis, lividity, the effect of insects on dead bodies
Mean things: still rotting corpse, high summer heat

Books in progress: textbooks, Louise Bruit Zaidman and Pauline Schmitt Pantel (English translation by Paul Cartledge), Religion in the Ancient Greek City, Tobias Bucknell, Crystal Rain.

The glamour: More essay, more commuting. Cold weather.


...You know, this book has been unusually good to me since I started rewriting it. (This makes me worried.) I even know, now, why necromancy is absolutely verboten in the city. Ancestor cult!

(Trust me, it makes sense in my head.)