ROW80 Round 2 - 5th Update

Another Sunday update! Once again I've actually got a fair bit done this week so I'm doing an extra post. Also, I may not have time to do a Wednesday post because of assignment work later in the week, so if I don't, at least I'll have this one.

Friday night saw me once more reaching for my trusty bottle of Baileys. I then randomly wrote an entire scene for the third book of Exile, my high fantasy trilogy, which I haven't even touched in more than two years and wasn't supposed to touch until my dark fantasy novella is finished. And it was a dark scene, with lots of torture and dismemberment and death, but when I re-read it later, it was still quite good. To the point where I actually felt sorry and mildly horrified by what I'd put the characters through.

Does this make me a mean drunk?

Yesterday I also decided to set up a blog over at WordPress:

http://rebeccajfleming.wordpress.com/

Part of this was because I just think WordPress looks cleaner and more 'writerly', somehow. It was also because I thought that my Blogger site was kind of disorganised and pretty much cluttered with ROW80 updates and useless gadgets; anyone trying to find something specific would have a pretty hard time doing so. I've decided I'm going to keep using Blogger just for ROW80 updates and for any personal rants, whereas WordPress will be my 'professional' (I use the term loosely because I'm an immature idiot at the best of times) site, which will have more structured updates on my progress and will also be easier to navigate to find my current/planned projects.

Anyway, as far as my ROW80 Round 2 goals go: So far I've sort of met them, sort of haven't. I've got 4,000 of the 6,000 words I need for my literature review (well, probably 3,800 once I take out the reference notes) and I've kept up with all my other assignments so far. And I have added a lot more words to my novella (a good few thousand now), but I haven't been writing 500 words a day - it's been more like "write 1,500 words a day and then don't touch it for a few days" - which was meant to be my goal. So that earns me a nip on the bum from Judgemental Dog. But we have this week off uni, so hopefully the extra time will allow me to get back into the 500 words per day habit.

Once again I didn't have time to look for a good Judgemental Dog photo and caption it, but I did film another Judgemental Dog video (quality's a bit crap because it was filmed on my phone)! Here he is playing with my dad:

This has almost become a nightly ritual in our house; every time Dad gets home from work, he sits in his chair and Rex goes over to him for cuddles and ends up doing what appears to be a failed backflip before plopping onto the floor, all the while yowling like a cat being murdered. It never stops being entertaining :D

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