Happy June!

I love the month of June, largely because it's my birthday month (my birthday's on the 20th), and I have grown up not at all when it comes to birthdays. I still get ridiculously excited about parties and presents.

In other news, I am sick! Again! So silly. Just a cold, but it meant I spent most of the weekend in bed. I had my first outing today, to buy groceries, and now that I'm home again I'm looking forward to a lazy afternoon and evening watching telly on the couch.

Thanks so much for your links on the last post - I'm still looking through all of them, and they're great! If you'd still like to add some, please do, they're very helpful.

Revision stats

Phew! A hard day, work-wise. I am very affected by the weather - took me a while to realise that, as in Zimbabwe we didn't really have weather. Not like we have here - four seasons in one day. Once we moved to New Zealand, I noticed that my mood (never the most stable at the best of times), rose and fell with the temperature and the cloud-cover. Now that I am aware of my seasonal mood-swings, I can work around them, and sometimes shrug them off. Today was like that - I felt a bit crap because it was wet and gloomy and icky outside, but I tried to put that aside and get my work done anyway. Mostly succeeded.

Here's where I stand at the moment:
Word count: 111,000. And that's with some rewrites and additions. Yay! It shouldn't be too hard to get it below 110,000 by the end.
Pages revised and edited: 154 of 232 (A4, single-spaced pages, that is). Which leads me neatly onto ...
... Chapters revised: Twenty-one. There are thirty-three in total. Which puts me seven-elevenths of the way through. That's nice and confusing.

I solved a couple of plot problems today as well - I haven't finished the necessary rewrites, but I've made a start and I know what I need to do. Half the battle. I still have a lot of work to do if I'm going to finish by next Friday. Luckily, I work best to a pressing deadline. The coffee machine and I are just going to have to continue on our symbiotic path.

For now, I'm going to have some away-from-screen time.