Well, here we are at the Sunday morning after the fall time change. I have no clue what time it is, so don't ask me what week it is. It's a week.
I did some small amount of writing this week. Just over a thousand words over two days. Frankly, I was at a point where I had painted myself into a corner and couldn't find a window to crawl out of. Then I had an idea while sitting on the toilet before bed. I wrote the idea down when I was finished and then went back to brush my teeth. Then I laid in bed thinking about how to write the idea. I really should've gotten up and just written the scene because it was way harder to write the next day, lemme tell ya. Ya gotta strike while the iron is hot, even if you're sleepy. Anyway, I think I have it, but we'll see what happens tonight.
Marketing... Well, I did WIOH and very little came of it. Which is weird because WIOH is one of my best movers when it comes to freebie week. And it usually results in page reads, too. :shrug: Poor returns on marketing make it really hard to get the motor going for writing more books. Like I need another reason to not write. Blerg.
I'm in the middle of reading The Martian by Andy Weir. It's pretty good so far.
In baking news... there isn't any. I thought about baking bread, but it never happened.
On the activity front, it was cool enough for me to go into the woods, so there was a lot of that. The active part was mostly cutting vines and dead limbs, and piling those things up, plus moving deadfall. We also did some wandering in the woods, to survey what needs to be done. Man, there are a lot of fallen limbs and trees since the last time I was down in there. I did walk the road once, too. Weight: 174.2
It got down to freezing last night, so yesterday afternoon, I moved all my baby trees into the garage. And I picked all the big tomatoes. They're still mostly green, but they should ripen. I've got them in a container in the spare room, where they can still get some sun. Fingers crossed. The little tomatoes are still out there on the plants. We'll see what last night's temps did to them. This coming week, I'll trash the plants and reuse the pots for some of my trees who need bigger pots to thrive. Hubs and I are in talks about where in the yard to place new trees. I really need to pick up some fencing before I plant, so they have at least a small chance of surviving the deer.
I think that's it for me this morning. If I missed anything, sorry. What went on in your lives?
I woke up and had coffee with the sun up. It was nice. Yay for Standard Time! I have no clue what week it is either. I just know it's November.
ReplyDeleteThis is the first time in...like 15 years that I'm not doing NaNoWriMo. The organization went woke so I got off their email list. I feel like I should do a solo shot at it but...eh. What p!sses me off is that the book is better than I'm giving it credit for but I just don't want to get in writer mode. I suck.
I made beef stew and cornbread to celebrate the cool weather. Made hamburger stroganoff last night. Yummers. I'd make waffles tonight but I thing we're doing something with the Kids after Stormy's soccer game to celebrate Only's b-day.
Speaking of, the Kids with 2 extra in tow stopped by for trick-r-treat. The extras were in Squid Game costumes. Stormy came as his favorite soccer player. Kid's got his priorities straight!
Speaking of sports. The World Serious got SERIOUS! Holy cow!! The whole series was a baseball lover's dream and I didn't care (much) who won. Glad the Dodgers did because...Canada.
Still in a book-listening slump. It sucks.
Okay, I need to do some stuff before we load up for the trek to the soccer fields. Later, gator!