Lost my cat yesterday

Spent a nearly sleepless night, because she's a little home body and doesn't go far, and this morning I tracked her down to the shed. I don't know who was more relived. But OH the anguished mews and little tabby nose poking under the door. Now she's trying to eat her own weight in tuna and keeps coming and glaring at me as though I was the one who locked her in there.

I've had a count up and I have 62,465 words of my pirate story according to Word. That's a little disappointing since Gdocs says it's more. Another 20K and it will be done. But anyway over 62K is good cause for celebration so time for a snippet: ( Read more... )

Am pouting a bit at Mary Renault. She used ALL the easy Greek names - the nice two syllable ones that a modern reader can pronounce without too much difficulty. I was writing a short story but did some checking and am having to change names. For the moment they can stay as they are but if I have to swap them for something like Panagiotakis and Thoukidides I'll have to find a way of shortening them.

Still, there's chocolate and Being Human! And I have my cat back!