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Made good progress this week and mostly enjoyed myself. I even dreamt about one of my characters, which was a pretty exciting development. And when I re-read Monday now, it feels like ages ago, so that’s good too. May the next two weeks coming up to my deadline also drag feel spacious.
MONDAY
Set myself a huge wordcount target today to get me to a specific percentage of the book. The energy meters were due to be replaced some time between eight and six, so I assumed I’d be stuck in waiting all day. Instead the (very nice) guy arrived at 9.30.
Wrote a bit of book while he was here and wrote my Ladybird Purse newsletter about the cost of the move once he’d left and then went for a walk, while listening to Jessica Knappett on Adam Buxton’s podcast.
(When I saw she was the guest, I thought “friend!” We are not friends. We’ve never met. I’m pretty sure I’ve said the exact same about Adam in the past too. Why aren’t we friends? It’s so unfair.)
Anyway, while writing the Ladybird post, I realised milk and eggs had been delivered to the old house, so I walked there, stopping off at the rental agency to drop off the key on the way, and at Tesco on the way back to buy food for the bottomless voids that are my kids.
I watched an episode of Big Boys with my lunch and then got on with some writing. I think there must be something wrong with the space/time continuum because for every 1000 words I wrote, I somehow only wrote 300. Absolutely galling. But I got there in the end and, yes, it involved edible rewards and a second coffee.
Words today: 3,501 (not as many as I wanted to do, but I knew I was probably kidding myself)
Added to the playlist: You Make My Dreams (Come True) by Hall & Oates
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