Daily Archives: September 6, 2006

ESTC Update

Total word count, ESTC: 20,638
Total words today: 1,028

Zokutou word meterZokutou word meter
20,638 / 50,000
(41.3%)

I dawdled today, knowing full well that I only had to hit 1400 words this week to be on schedule. I’m about two hundred words under my (actual) daily quota, and don’t really care, ha ha! (This is good for me, and a nice change from stressing.)

All today’s words constitute the draft of a single ritual. I have got to move to the final two chapters, because everything else (except chapter 2, the ubiquitous history/cultural chapter; I am formulaic and predictable) now exists in a moderately substantial draft form. And I’m almost half-done. When it’s all there in draft form, then I can polish and rewrite and round it out.

Warning: Incipient Hardware Violence

Goodbye, Internet; I am about to stab my very noisy whiny router with something blunt but dense in order to cause as much damage as possible. Or possibly just turn it off.

When I need to take another break, I will turn it on again in order to do research on a replacement router, because I can’t take this thing much longer. It sounds like I’m working next to a vacuum cleaner. It somehow was left on for four days straight while we were gone (although I could have sworn I turned it off like I do every night, being obsessive about things like that, particularly before a long weekend away) and we came home to the thing sounding like it was revving up to take off from Cape Canaveral, complete with threatening an explosion midair. It’s worse than it’s ever been, and I want to kill it dead dead dead because it’s getting into my brain and I can’t make it stop. Not even playing Zombie Chickens at top volume masks it.

So joy: a new router gets added to my list of things I need to buy for the computer when my cheque comes in, right below that new stick of RAM.

Book Signing!

This Saturday, for the first time ever, a local book signing by the elusive author of Power Spellcraft for Life, Solitary Wicca for Life, and The Way of the Green Witch!

Location: Le Melange Magique, 1928 Ste-Catherine West, Montreal (metro Guy), (514) 938-1458
Time: Saturday September 9 2006, 16:00 – 18:00

This is part of the Le Melange Magique’s 15th anniversary celebration weekend, and is going to be an informal meet-and-greet kind of event. I’d love to see you, to thank you for your support, and to finally sign all those copies of my books that people keep saying they’ve been holding on to, hoping for an event just like this!

I’ll be leading a spellcrafting workshop at the store next month too, around mid-October. More details will be available at the signing, and the store will be taking registration for it at that time as well.

See you there!