Lockdown progress report for May 7, 2020 Total words: 0 (haven’t started yet)Manuscript total: 57,249 I keep reading news articles with desperate public health officials repeating the same thing over and over again: Choosing between keeping people alive and reopening the economy is a false dichotomy. – Public health officials, Read more…
Total words: 2,312Manuscript total: 53,236 I want a haircut so badly. Soooooo badly. As I tug at the sideburns that should not be tuggable at all, I imagine the happy buzz of clippers as they erase all that hair back to a reasonable length. The sad part is that my Read more…
Total words: 2,221Manuscript total: 50,927 I’m feeling really good about my progress on Empress of Dorsa, the third and final book in Tasia and Joslyn’s Chronicles of Dorsa trilogy. Only a month ago, the manuscript sat at about 11,000 words. That means I’ve added about 40,000 words in just a Read more…
Total words: 0 (yesterday I wrote 1,990)Manuscript total: 46,517 Not having a job for an entire school year has been financially excruciating. Unlike interns in other professions, teacher interns (student teachers) do not get paid. We do all the jobs of a teacher — planning, teaching, grading, going to staff Read more…
Total words: 0 (it’s still early)Manuscript total: 42,517 That thing that I’ve been hearing people talk about finally happened to me today: This morning, I became utterly confused as to what day it was. As I headed downstairs early this morning to make my coffee and oatmeal, I was struck Read more…
Total words: ~1,600 (I closed Scrivener before double-checking the number)Manuscript total: ~36,000 Whoops, sorry I haven’t blogged in a bit, readers. It was a combination of the lazies… and actually being kind of busy again. We’ve been holding Zoom meetings with our seniors every weekday, and let me tell you, Read more…
Total words: 0 (haven’t started yet)Manuscript total: 22,471 On Friday, I mentioned how HBO is letting people stream a big chunk of its library for free. (Just go to HBO Go to start watching.) In the spirit of public service announcements, I have a few more for you today. 1. Read more…
Total words: 0 Manuscript total: 20,604 I’m supposed to go to a Zoom cocktail party with my high school colleagues (not students!) in about two hours. I’m thinking I’m gonna skip it. I’m all Zoomed out today. I was on Zoom for a staff meeting from 8am to 9am, then Read more…
Total words: 0 (it’s only 6am and I’m still on my first cup of coffee)Manuscript total: 15,160 There was a joke I came across many years ago in the form of a cartoon. In the first panel, the devil is welcoming a new arrival to hell. “Bad news is, you’re Read more…
Total words: 1,321Manuscript total: 15,160 You would think that spring break, combined with stay-at-home orders, would lead to a whole lot of television binging for me. But it really hasn’t. (It’s going to look like I have been binging when you see the list below, but I swear I haven’t Read more…