1. Am I Still Here? Yes. And by “here,” I mean not in our new apartment, but still in our old one for another week. You thought I was going to do something silly like apologize for not blogging for a few days. (Sorry.)
2. What Have I Been Doing? Mostly reading the Engineer Trilogy by K. J. Parker. I read the first book, Devices and Desires, all 672 pages of it. And then I read the second book, Evil for Evil, and never were 704 pages more aptly named. I’m surfacing for air before diving in to the third book, The Escapement, for which I have tremendously high hopes, though I’m apprehensive that at 432 pages, it’s something like a third shorter than the other two. Why? What does it mean?
3. What Will I Be Doing? This week, mostly working. When not working, driving to and from work. When not driving, reading K. J. Parker. When not reading, writing Chapter Eleven.
4. When Will I Finish That Novel Already? I’m getting there, I’m getting there. After the feverish pace of JuNoWriMo ended, I took a couple of days off and then resumed at a much more leisurely thousand-words-a-day rate. I expect to be done before the end of July: in a week if I write quickly, in two weeks if I write steadily, and in three weeks if I write intermittently. So, two to three weeks.
5. How’s Anastasia? She’s fine. Her recent pastimes include shredding the inside of a bubble packing envelope (therapeutic) and knocking a glass of water off of the coffee table (ornery).
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