Last night's writing looked very bad or a while there. I was doing fine and then suddenly, BAM -- pain up through the back and into the head. Took hours for it to finally ease enough that I could do anything. I ended up with something over 5000 words, which surprised me.

I'm about to start the work for today, and hope to get a good run at it.

And we have snow on the ground. More snow in March than we've had during all the previous winter months put together. (Which, by the way, is not that much -- maybe four inches. We expect more tonight.)

It's just strange some days, isn't it?

I wrote 8040 words before I stopped. I hope I can get back into it as well today, but right now I'm trying to push away a headache and upset stomach. But, if I can get my little pounding head to cooperate, I might get caught up today. I would like that.

My original plan was to have this done on the 6th. I purposely gave myself an extra day -- the 7th -- because I know things go badly. But the truth is, even if I didn't have it quite done my the 8th, I would still start the next book on that day. It's traditional that I start something new on my birthday, and... well, it's not like I've been logical about having things finished first before this.

However, I only have 102 phases left to go and four days left. 25 phases a day was my original plan. I'm feeling much better now that I'm back to where I should be.

So, I'm going to go do a little writing, then do some house cleaning... no hold it, a bit of house cleaning first, then some writing. Then some more cleaning. It doesn't hurt to break the horrible stuff up with fun writing. (grin)

Well, this has been a good night. 57,954 is the total count at the moment, and I'm up to phase 229. That's just a bit over 7000 words so far, and I'm still going for a few more phases before I give up. If I can make a few more, I have a chance of actually catching up tomorrow.

It is so good to feel part of the story again. I love writing. But I love it best when it flies like this.

Writing tonight is going very well. I'm over 5000 words -- over 54,000 for the novel -- and I'm going to get a bit more before I stop. I'm still a day behind, but I'm finishing up what I should have had done for yesterday, and I might get a couple phases into today. That would be great.

I'm feeling better, too. I hope it stays that way this time.

Now... back to writing.

There, that's better. I don't really have much to say, but I thought I'd get this updated. I do have a new story up:

Seeker of Shadows, Stealer of Souls at Dragons, Knights and Angels. Check it out.

Other than that... I still have a cold, I'm still pretty miserable, and I need to get some work done.