36 days left

Hard to imagine that I'll only have to work one month after autumn break. Yay!

Today I've made the first step towards taking better care of my health: I went to the so-called salt hut on the next corner and got their flyer. Apparently, salt vapours are terribly good for the upper respiratory system; something I sorely need after 40 years in this education business. I want to keep singing in the choir for a long time yet. The prices are reasonable, and as a retired senior citizen I get to pay the lower ones, it is really about 20 metres from our house and seems to be a nice place. We'll see.

I've made some modest progress with the Dwobbit fic. I hope to finish the editing of Ch 13 tomorrow and move on to Ch 14. These are all rather rough drafts that will need quite some re-phrasing while I type them up, but I'm glad to have come this far at all.

Nothing else really happened today, which is nice. I like my peace and quiet. It gives me a vague idea what it would be like to be retired... if only my health and general peace would last. *fingers crossed*

Picowrimo looming on the horizon!

I thought I'd post this here, so that people might find the comm if they want. Feel free to repost the entry to your own LJ and spread the word about the good fun that is picowrimo

Standard invitation:

It's almost November, so those of you interested in participating this year, please feel free to walk over to picowrimo, comment there and tell us what you plan to write. I will put up the daily post as a rule, but other people graciously offered to do so, should I be hindered by Real Life in any way.

For those who are new, PicoWriMo is a community for people who wanted to participate in some of the madness and achievement of NaNoWriMo, but wanted a more realistic target - say 500 or 5000 words. We have daily prompts for people to post about what progress they're making and to give encouragement to others to hit their writing targets.

There are no goals other than those you set for yourself, and no compulsion beyond what you put upon yourself. There are no limits on genre, style, age, or experience, and both fiction and non-fiction are welcome.

Participants are welcome to post excerpts, and links to completed work are also welcome.