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...and we're back!
Jan. 1st, 2007 03:52 pmAfter a wonderful holiday down on the south NSW coast with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
saramund and her family for the last week. No internet. Lovely views. Countryside. Peace. Quiet. Good company. Time and space to write.
It was good.
Okay, except the part where I acquired a hacking cough on Boxing Day and have only just begun to shake it after spending the last few days up to my nose in tissues, and which meant I got about 2 hours of sleep on the night of the 30th.
I have a new lamp! Mangrove root, woodturned, with this big globular hanging ball light like the full moon. It's really cool.
I also read the first three of Diana Gabaldon's 'Through The Stones trilogy: Cross-Stitch, Dragonfly in Amber, and Voyager. After years of various persons pestering me to read them, I have. Now I just have to re-read them over.
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I only have two New Year's Resolutions:
1. 24,000 words each month towards original fiction.
That's 800 words a day. At the least, I should be able to manage 700 words a day, which should put me at 21,000 original fiction words.
2. I will finish one novel-sized piece of original fiction this year.
Actually, I told myself I'd finish one piece of original fiction last year. But then fandom and doubt and parents entered the picture and it all went pear-shaped.
I guess they're goals, really. To be aimed for and met. If I don't, well, it won't make that much of a difference to what I'm already doing, right?
saramund and her family for the last week. No internet. Lovely views. Countryside. Peace. Quiet. Good company. Time and space to write.It was good.
Okay, except the part where I acquired a hacking cough on Boxing Day and have only just begun to shake it after spending the last few days up to my nose in tissues, and which meant I got about 2 hours of sleep on the night of the 30th.
I have a new lamp! Mangrove root, woodturned, with this big globular hanging ball light like the full moon. It's really cool.
I also read the first three of Diana Gabaldon's 'Through The Stones trilogy: Cross-Stitch, Dragonfly in Amber, and Voyager. After years of various persons pestering me to read them, I have. Now I just have to re-read them over.
--
I only have two New Year's Resolutions:
1. 24,000 words each month towards original fiction.
That's 800 words a day. At the least, I should be able to manage 700 words a day, which should put me at 21,000 original fiction words.
2. I will finish one novel-sized piece of original fiction this year.
Actually, I told myself I'd finish one piece of original fiction last year. But then fandom and doubt and parents entered the picture and it all went pear-shaped.
I guess they're goals, really. To be aimed for and met. If I don't, well, it won't make that much of a difference to what I'm already doing, right?
