From suck to sick
Mar. 25th, 2010 04:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
babarnettStupid cold. I could still be a functional human being if it was only the sniffling and sneezing, but the accompanying headache had me curled up in bed for a good chunk of today. The headache's eased up for now--this is the first time I've been able to look at the computer for more than a few minutes without my eyes crossing--but it's been coming and going so much since yesterday that I fear it'll return.
The Writerly Update
Now that I've looked at my word count progress, I wish that I hadn't. Only 1,600 words in the last 3 weeks. Ugh. I didn't expect great progress since my writing time recently has mostly been limited to my 20-minute morning train ride, but I didn't think it'd be that pathetic. I did finish rewriting the first scene in chapter 12 yesterday, at least.
The Readerly Update
The only advantage to my cold is that I had an excuse to sit down with some soup and a book and read for a couple hours today since, unlike the computer, that didn't make my headache worse. I finished On Killing. Overall, a fascinating read that I'd recommend...except for the last section, which derailed into what I felt was a flawed look at the effects of violence in movies and video games. The book was best when it focused on the effects of killing in military combat, and it gave me a lot to think about in that regard, so still worth the read despite its final detour.
All of my reading for the last several months has been either non-fiction or short stories, so in deciding what to read next, I thought I'd go with a novel for a change of pace and grabbed The Silver Bough by Lisa Tuttle off my to-read shelf. Onward...
The Writerly Update
Now that I've looked at my word count progress, I wish that I hadn't. Only 1,600 words in the last 3 weeks. Ugh. I didn't expect great progress since my writing time recently has mostly been limited to my 20-minute morning train ride, but I didn't think it'd be that pathetic. I did finish rewriting the first scene in chapter 12 yesterday, at least.
37300 / 118000
(31.61%)
(31.61%)
The Readerly Update
The only advantage to my cold is that I had an excuse to sit down with some soup and a book and read for a couple hours today since, unlike the computer, that didn't make my headache worse. I finished On Killing. Overall, a fascinating read that I'd recommend...except for the last section, which derailed into what I felt was a flawed look at the effects of violence in movies and video games. The book was best when it focused on the effects of killing in military combat, and it gave me a lot to think about in that regard, so still worth the read despite its final detour.
All of my reading for the last several months has been either non-fiction or short stories, so in deciding what to read next, I thought I'd go with a novel for a change of pace and grabbed The Silver Bough by Lisa Tuttle off my to-read shelf. Onward...
