Current mood:	pleased
Entry tags:	metrics, sfi

Book metrics
Quick wrap-up before I head off to bed.

Still not quite in love with the beginning. Usually I loathe it when it comes straight off the keyboard, and then when I read it later, it's not so bad. We'll have to see.

New book (S-Fi)

Word Count: 2,232 for today's count (though I suspect I will shrink some of it in a rewrite), total ms of 5,291. Projecting this one to end up at 90,000.
Mean Things: Someone refuses something rather spoilery.
Nice Things: A crate of Pop Tarts.
Things I need to fix: Scene feels flabby. Probably needs to be trimmed in half to make it move faster.
Things to think up before next writing session: Actually, I'm pretty sure how the next bit goes. It's the part after that I get blank on.
Currently Reading: Kresley Cole's novella in Playing Easy To Get

And I don't normally post one, but I liked this line a lot, so here's my darling for the day: “You know,” I carried on, angrily re-braiding my hair. “I thought going on this dig would be good for my career. I could finally set myself up as a serious archaeologist. But I swear to all that’s holy, it’s like I’m the Hooters girl at the church social."