…in “Andy’s Party”, which is (prob­a­bly) going to be my Kitchen Fic­tion entry. Excerpt: Ger­ald and Phil ran into Dean and Car­leen at the liquor mart. The party was BYOB, and so they were try­ing to decide between brands of vodka. Car­leen was a bit of a conois­seur, and so was try­ing to steer Dean toward …

…on the Kitchen Fic­tion con­test story, cur­rently titled Con­tract Work. Yay me!

…in the “kitchen fic­tion” story (con­test entry for the Man­i­toba Writ­ers’ Guild con­test). Hope­fully more this afternoon, too.

…about 600 words last night. Hope­fully more in the next few days.

Across a Wounded Land — 1300 words

Skipped judo tonight, walk­ing wounded*, and wrote instead. About 1100 words in Across a Wounded Land, so that’s not too bad. Granted, there’s some cut’n’paste from the first draft, but not too much tonight. Sam­ple: The office was a white cube, with a small white desk in the geo­met­ric cen­ter of the floor. White cur­tains …

…900 words. Not great but not bad for one hour’s real work. Still have to turn off the Inter­nal Edi­tor, though. Could’ve had more… Try again tomor­row, for a lit­tle while between sup­per and judo.

Whoops, missed a day or so. This week­end: 700 words in Across a Wounded Land. Not bad for a lit­tle less than an hour’s work. Not great, but not bad. Tuesday’s tar­get: 2500 words.

Queen­dom Story [title?] — ~400 total so far

Didn’t get any writ­ing done last night — ended up doing other stuff, then watch­ing MXC. Tonight. Honest.