Yesterday I left work early to let a workman into the house (we're finally getting the cracked window replaced--over a year after we moved in), and he was prompt and quick. I could have done work I'd brought home, but instead I took myself and my laptop to the coffee shop for some writing time.
I deliberately went to the coffee shop that didn't have free wireless, because I can get sucked into the 'net awfully quickly. And I got some writing done. Not a lot--perhaps 650 words, but a good beginning.
I also read over some of the other writing I've been doing--little seeds of essays, some things more fleshed out--and was really liking what I read. None of it was perfect, but it was all going somewhere. That's a big hunk of something.
Even though I don't want to talk about it much, I do want to have a running word count on here somewhere so that if it stalls at one word count for too long, you all can send me email nudges. Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to find a ticker or something pretty, as opposed to me writing WORD COUNT and updating the number. I'll do that if no better options present themselves, but if you know where I can download a pretty ticker, drop me a comment.