50,000!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my friend Luisa. :-) YAY, I passed 50K yesterday! I still have about a chapter to write to finish the book. I'm going to spend December (and realistically, part of January) editing/revising my two books before sending them to my agent at Curtis-Brown. Despite my comic today, I did get a lot out of the whole experience, namely the knowledge of how much harder I can work if I push myself and NOT let myself edit while I'm writing. My tendency has always been to over-edit as I write, to the point where I'll sometimes rewrite an entire chapter several times before moving on to the next one. It also confirmed my suspicion that my fiction writing output increases dramatically if I work outside of the apartment (i.e. where I can't get on the Internet). Unfortunately the experiment also got me hooked on lattés; I'd walk into my favourite coffee shop, and the woman behind the counter would start pouring my coffee even before I got to the cash register. I'm going to try experimenting taking my laptop and working on the dining room table (not connected to the 'Net) and see if that could be a good compromise. Went out with my friend Cathy last night. We saw Harry Potter: Chamber of Secrets (my second time) and then had a bite to eat at The Red Tomato. Links/News: I added two new strips to Waiting For Frodo yesterday. One year ago, Allison, Jodi & I performed a ritualistic, gastronomic F2F. Three years ago, I introduced Aqua's "I'm A Barbie Girl" to Sara and Annie, much to Ruth's and Kaarel's horror and amusement. Four years ago, Inkspot had over 44,000 subscribers. Today's Blatherpic: Updated My Life In A Nutshell.