The Daily Report
Don't always do one of these on the weekends, especially on Sundays, but I just arrived in Hagerstown yesterday and I want to keep in good work habits from the beginning.
I wrote somewhere between 2,000 and 3,000 words yesterday. The uncertainty is partly due to different understandings of the word "yesterday" and partly because I was shifting drafts between Word (for offline work in transit) and Google Docs. I'll split the difference and call it 2,500 words.
It was with a little trepidation that I checked the early responses to yesterday's chapter. I wrote much of it in transit and all of it while fairly sleep deprived, so while I thought it was good, there was always the chance for things like huge discontinuities or obviously missing parts or major errors in creative judgment. But I still like it by the light of day, and it seems that the readers do, too.
After I got the chapter posted last night, I set up the Wii I'd brought with me and introduced Sarah and Jack to the joys of Mario Kart and Smash Bros. Brawl. Much fun was had by all.
State of the Me
Between insomnia, travel anxiety, traveling, and video game excitement, I went about 38 hours without sleep. That probably has something to do wit how I was able to get my best night of sleep in a long time, even when it was too hot for blanketing. Although if I were in a hardcore insomnia phase, even that wouldn't have made much of a difference, so I'm hopeful that insomnia has broken.
I've been here less than 24 hours so it might be too soon to tell, but my allergies seem to be bothering me less here than they were in Nebraska. At the very least I'm not being hammered.
Plans For Today
We have social plans and stuff we need to go out and do, so I'm not going to do much more than sit down and write for an hour at some point if I can, or for one twenty minute burst if I can't.
