I awoke very early again today, after not being able to get to sleep as early as I wanted, yet though I am tired, as always, I am not actually sleepy.

Nevertheless, I already wrote a decent amount on Extra Body by 6:30 this morning.  My “block” word count is 1,380, and my “net” word count is 1,381.  I don’t need to go into specific numbers to note that the difference there is less than one part in a 1,300!  This is despite the fact that I did make changes on the previous few pages’ writing as I reread it.

The first draft is now 52,939 words long, and it’s now 82 pages long (with 1.15 spaces between lines, and in Calibri, 11-point type).  I’m not that such a thing really matters, but it’s quite amusing that I thought this might actually be a “short story”.

That’s all I have for today.  Nothing else in my life is worth mentioning, and even this may not really be worth discussing.  “All is vanity,” as the writer of Ecclesiastes said.  Which is a bit funny, because important things in my story involve materials on the counter-top surface surrounding a bathroom sink–another kind of vanity, but the name for which is surely related to the older usage.

Have a good day.