landscape

My goals for this past week’s writ­ing retreat were:

• Fin­ish the last scene in “The Slow Apoc­a­lypse”, first draft
• 1,500−2,000 words a day in either Trans­la­tions or “Dried Flowers”
• Pho­tos of the Milky Way (pos­si­bly a video) and Comet NEOWISE
• Pho­tos of the countryside
• Dai­ly bike ride
• Some kayak­ing

Let’s see how I did.

• I fin­ished “The Slow Apoc­a­lypse” on my first evening
• I wrote 13,000 words between Trans­la­tions, aka Daniel, Daniel, Daniel, and “Dried Flowers”
• I got all kinds of pho­tos of the Milky Way and the comet—even on the nights where clouds were fore­cast, there was usu­al­ly at least some time where the stars were visible
• I also took all kinds of pho­tos in the daytime
• I rode my bike every day, for a total of over 60 km (which sur­prised me)
• And I went out in the kayak three times, cov­er­ing about 10 km in the lake

So, on bal­ance, that was a good week.