Writing: 3100 Words, Two Sessions

Been one of those days when small things combine to prevent bigger things occurring. This morning's session went well and I reached 2,000 words before joining my wife in bed for breakfast. A short trip to the local shops for odds and sods and it was time for lunch.
The weather was great, so I took a short stroll round the garden and took some photographs of the flowers as a diversion from the desk. Back inside, and the pictures uploaded and tweaked, emails sorted and then had to update the laptop. My Google Chrome then started to play up, so I had to stop the email session and prepare more blog posts. Valerie was bowling and Kate had a date with her boyfriend, so I was taxi driver, ferrying everyone here and there.
Then Blogger decided to play silly devils just as I was scheduling some of the posts I'd prepared. Finally actually got down to more writing and managed another 1,100 words. So, in the end 3,100, but it could so easily have been 4,000 or more.
Still all is going well with the epic fantasy. And I'm still managing to keep the timeline up to date, which is just as well, as I'd be lost without that.
Enough. It's 9:30 on Friday night and I've been up since 7:30, so I think I deserve a drop of red on the sofa with my lovely wife.

Writing: 2900 Words; Better.

This morning, the computer was playing up; Excel was slow and the custom dictionary in Word pretended not to exist. I wrote on nevertheless and managed 2900 words of blistering prose, taking three separate story threads further through the tale. After breakfast, I restarted the machine and all settled back to normal, apart from Media Player, which had somehow lost all my music from the playlist. I created a new one and imported all the albums into that; it now works again as well. Bloody computers!
A quick trip to Tesco's for fresh groceries and then lunch under a clear blue sky in the garden.
Kate took a friend off to the coast in the car to 'study' on the beach.
This afternoon I scheduled more posts for the blog to take me to next Thursday. Read some of one of my writing magazines with a great feature about the late great John Sullivan.
After tea, pinched Kate's bike to carry Valerie's bowls bag to the local bowling green, where she had a match, and then cycled back. I'd forgotten how much effort it takes to cycle against the wind and up even a slight incline!
This evening, I've completed 8 character profiles, which leaves another 8 to do. But now I'm going to spend the remains of the day with Valerie, sitting on the sofa and watching comedy on the idiots' lantern, whilst imbibing some Cabernet Sauvignon from the case I got from Naked Wines on my birthday.

The picture shows a villa in Crete.

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Word of the day

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It's Monday, it's been a very long day and I'm tired. So, just the following for now:


Word of the day; literary – of or pertaining to books and literature, used in the genre sense for works using quality language containing metaphor, allusion, simile, and often serious themes; ‘Whether or not a piece of writing can be classed as literary is very often dependent on the view of the reader; like the tasting of wine, this is an area where snobbery can creep in and set loose the jackals of discord amongst the literati.’