¦ dialling in from Sky Bunker ¦
08:27 GMT, Saturday 31st October 2009. A bright day outside with patchy blue skies. I'm feeling a little groggy. Stayed late at the office last night, slotting into a deep writing groove after 5pm. Almost everyone had left so I put on my tunes a little louder than usual, pumping out Vibrasphere, Datasette and Dead Can Dance. I nailed the end of chapter 12. The book is now on 39,000 words on counting. If my memory is working correctly, I'm taking about a week per chapter at the moment. I scheduled 5 days per chapter when I set myself a goal, but with the burst I completed at the start of writing this, I think I'm on target. I'm really enjoying Mikhail Drobna.
The groginess has nothing to do with the book. I drove home on a big writing high, so planned an evening of R&R. Jo's away so I've got the whole weekend to myself. It was already after 8 by time I got home. Hot bath, got dressed into my hobo outfit (baggy jogging bottoms, comfort jumper, big Norwegian socks, topped off by wrapping myself in Starsky). I cooked up big pan of spagetti and smoked sausage, then sank into one of the sofas in the front room and supped red wine. Poirot, Rude Tube top 50, then Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (broadcasting on terrestial). I crashed out and woke up to the sound of automatic gunfire on the TV.
So today is drive back to Bath, go do a big walk with Vega$, then return to Bristol, Boston Tea Party - work up notes for Ch 13, and spend the rest of the day back here in Sky Bunker writing.
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