ROW80 Round 2 - 9th Update

This week has been fairly good on both the academic and novel-writing front. Over the last few days I've been having some fairly persistent ideas for my novella, so I've been chipping away at that and managed another 800 words or so of that since the weekend. The scene I wrote is fairly dark, but it's one of those scenes that somehow came out exactly the way I wanted it to; some nice brooding on the protagonist's behalf without coming across as wanky. If only that happened more often...

I've also reached a milestone with my literature review, cracking the 5,000 word mark. I'm at 5,013 at the moment, so I only have another 987 to go and it's finished. I could probably crank out another few hundred before bed tonight, but I've been writing all day and I can't be bothered. I won't have time to work on it tomorrow because I have class all day and then I have to get some other stuff ready for my supervisor meeting on Friday morning, but after that meeting I'll have nothing on my plate til the following week; I'm aiming to finish it by Friday night, or Saturday afternoon at the latest (mainly so I can show it to my supervisor at least a week before the deadline and correct any mistakes she finds before I hand it in).

I also took some time out to read a new book (Hell's Bells by John Connolly), so I'll be posting a review of that on my good blog in the next few days as well (for now I'll just say that I quite enjoyed it).

Seems that Judgemental Dog is somewhat vain about his appearance:

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