In contrast to Michael Stipe, I both sleep and dream.

So last night, I laid down at shortly after 11. A little bit ago, I woke up in the darkness to the sound of cats fighting and then found I couldn't get back to sleep, my body felt wide awake. My internal clock was sure it was only a few hours since I laid down, and I was convinced that my insomnia-free streak was over, as this was a pretty familiar set of feelings to me.

Then I turned on my computer screen and saw that it's six in the morning. Yay! That's probably not as much sleep as I would have had if not for the cat fight, and so I'll probably be laying back down after I write this post, but I felt like remarking on it.

Also, yesterday morning I wrote between 13,000 and 15,000 words of what will probably end up being a decent length novella. While it's more or less sequential, unlike most of the things that I write I didn't simply start at the beginning so I'm not going to be posting it as I go. I might share some excerpts from it as I go along.

Tuesday: This is my status post.

News For Today:

Quite unexpectedly, I'm working on what's either a long short story or a short novella, depending on when and where exactly it peters out. Yesterday I wrote about 15,000 words of it. The will to write is strong today, but the ability is not so much in evidence, so instead I've mostly been editing it, as I wrote it primarily in two bursts and there are some details that didn't cohere well between them, the whole thing being completely unplanned. What I'm going to do with it when I'm finished is also going to depend on that.

The working title for the story is Gift of the Bad Guy. It's a different take on the superhero mythos than my usual work in that milieu.

Personal Assessment:

Today is a low energy day. After I slept/rested so much over the weekend, I managed to go more than 24 hours without sleeping without noticing it from Sunday night through Monday. The end result of this is that I ended up sleeping at a "normal" hour for the first time in a while, from about 11 at night until about 6 in the morning. But it also means I'm a little tired today.

I probably could have done with more than seven hours of sleep, honestly, but that's when I woke up and I couldn't get back to sleep. I'm letting my body decide if it needs a nap or if it's better to just press on and have a full night's sleep later. So far it's decidedly undecided.

Plans For Today:

Rest, regain energy. I think today's going to be an archive-trawling day rather than a writing one.