I've filled up my LibraryThing allocation of 100 books, and I've barely covered half the books I've got (hell, I've barely covered half the Pratchetts'!), probably a lot less.

I'm in credit for five minutes, and the bank decides to cancel my overdraft facility. But that's not all - they cancelled it on the 15th, wrote a letter to tell me about it on the 25th, which arrived today.

The only reason I'm in credit is because I was awaiting my ESA appeal decision - and in that time I was, for some reason, still getting paid ESA. So I let it stack up, in case they demanded it back. But I had my appeal on the 18th, and they turned it down (we are appealing that decision), and on the 20th I went into the bank to pay in the money I've got so far from sale of my books at IDWCon (and what with converting it back to GBP from EUR, I'll be lucky to break even), and wrote a cheque for £500 to pay off some of my credit card. And the machine I used to check my balance afterwards said I still had my overdraft available. But now apparently, I don't.

Thanks to ciciaye mentioning it, I've been reminded to add the Have Sword & Sorcery: Will Travel™ books to Librarything.

So, anyone who's read it, reviews and ratings would be most useful. Thank you.

Today's count: 40,192
Today's ideal and target: 40,000

Woohoo!

Now I remember why I don't listen to the Wicked soundtrack that often. I've had earworms since Friday (when I listened to it).

Today's count: 36,810
Today's ideal: 38,333

Target on the 24th: 40,000

Today's count: 33,449
Today's ideal: 36,667

Target on the 24th: 40,000

Today's count: 30,070
Today's ideal: 35,000

Target on the 24th: 40,000

I appear to be back on track

Today's count: 25,442
Today's ideal: 33,333

Today's target: 25,000
Target on the 24th: 40,000

Today's count: 21,617
Today's ideal: 31,667
Target on the 24th: 40,000

Today's count: 18,360
Today's ideal: 30,000

As I stand virtually no chance of getting to 35k by the 21st, I've revised my target:

Target on the 24th: 40,000

Okay, so here's the thing...

The instalment of HS&S:WT that I'm writing now was always going to have to have included personal conflict between the male and female leads. The story would have hardly any dramatic tension otherwise, and the second half of it would lack a conflict of interest to be overcome.

The problem is, what with recent events, every time I write a bit plot-essential argument, I no longer have the will to continue afterwards. And, as I'm 12.5k behind on my wordcount already, and needing to write at least 4k/day for a week to get back on track, I am rapidly running out of time - the knowledge of which is also demoralising, thus increasing the amount of time I spend procrastinating.

My only hope is that said second half of the book is about to start (and it'll have to be a long half of 35k compared to the first half's 15k), during which there will be very little (or no) opportunity for there to be a row between Cullan and Alys.

Feck!

Today's count: 15,890
Today's ideal: 28,333
Target on the 21st: 35,000

Things were going well, then I wrote a row, and now things are going slow again. And tomorrow, I have my appeal tribunal hearing for my ESA, and on Thursday I'm going to be out more-or-less all day.

I've just found that Walter, today a rather geeky, weedy name, means, in the original Germanic, "powerful warrior, army ruler". Guess what I'm naming one of my new characters!

Today's count: 14,387
Today's ideal: 26,667
Target on the 21st: 35,000

Things are looking better, but still nowhere near as many words per day as I need to reach my target.