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I guess I’ve bored/sickened my dear readers with this theme, but until I get my teeth fixed there’s no escapement. Today, I learned that writing zealously before the dentist’s appointment is great; I could open my eyes, stare at her and think “probably this is how Urchin saw the surgeon”, and when she hit a [...]

OK, here’s what every day taught me. Monday. Writing Helps To Improve Wordcount. Tuesday. I should’ve used that trip to the dentist to write instead of obsess about what she’s going to do to me. What’s two root canals compared to not having your words done by evening? (Also, it *is* tecnically possible to write [...]

Yesterday, after doing my 1K (and moving the aquarium and flowers to my new apartment) I stole some pleasure time with a Moleskine notebook and a real fountain pen. Writing a story this way is definitely different from writing on computer. For one thing, I can comfortably jot down a sentence or two in the [...]

I’m sorry for the long hiatus in this blog – it’s just now that I’ve somewhat regained my senses after moving and the computers (including the server) are back online. For three days, I didn’t write a word. Now I’m thinking that probably I should have because technically, I had the time even if not [...]

I might steal a minute here and there, but generally this week is closed for writing officially. I did my 500+ words today, ended chapter 14, with only two chapters left (but I wouldn’t be surprised if they would turn out to be three. This weekend will be crazy busy with moving, buying stuff and [...]

Writing, I think, is often connected to life in tangential ways, not directly, but curiously so. I’ve been writing about people removed from their bodies and making a choice of whether or not to live in those (or any) bodies again, and am myself undergoing a second apartment change in my life. I never felt [...]

Today (after a cool and productive doing-nothing on Sunday… well, I did plan stuff and I did write some lines on The Longest Night, but mostly I read and lazied around) I wrote 1000+ words, stopping mid-scene in what might be one of the key events of the novel. I thought about pushing further today [...]

So. At the first glance, St.Petersburg really screwed my writing because for the whole 3 days I wrote nothing useful and Monday wasn’t better. I sincerely hope that I’ll recover today (but don’t count on it). But it was the first time I used metro. I also spent several hours scribbling unrelated notes in my [...]

I’m leaving for St.Petersburg tomorrow. The smart thing would be to pack my bag decently (but I can’t remember what to put in there save for some clothes and a book and a notepad (4 of them) and Asus Eee and maybe a camera. That’s it. No toys, no Pampers, no kids’ books, no little [...]

..I found a nice cozy apartment with a river view and stuff and I thought, why not buy it. Well, it was harder and more cumbersome than that, but let’s not dwell on it. In other news, got drunk with my husband, promised to get drunk with my colleagues and didn’t get Vega drunk (but [...]