Productivity

[velvetpage]

I think I miscounted yesterday. I left out one, three-thousand-word document while adding up the word count. It should be closer to 44 000.

I had a 2 000-word nap today, which ended rather suddenly as the baby began to scream. I went in to discover a very disgusting scene resulting, as far as we can tell, from a bit of a stomach bug. I won't bore you with the details, but it was nearly an hour later when I got back to the novel. I wrote another thousand words, for a total of three thousand this afternoon. That puts me around 47 000, which is only one more solid day's work from my end-of-vacation goal.

I'm trying very hard to stay focussed on the things over which I have control, and ignore the news. I can't do much about that, except give. I will do that much. But fretting over it won't help anyone, least of all me, so I'm concentrating on word count instead.

Comments

[michellinator.livejournal.com]

Hmm... you had mentioned having a lot of kids clothes to find homes for. I wonder how many nekkid kids are running around in the wake of that tsunami, having lost all their stuff along with their homes...

[r-caton.livejournal.com]

How many will run no more.....
the force of that water....

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

The thought had occurred to me. I'm going to contact the Red Cross tomorrow about it.

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

I cuddled my sick baby tonight and prayed about exactly that.

[michellinator.livejournal.com]

Too many... but those aren't the ones who can still be helped by us.