BIW was hard work, and I felt like I was pulling teeth, but I was damned if I was gonna not make the goal. I made it more for building my confidence in achieving goals than for the pages I’d written. Make sense? 
I didn’t care that I stopped at the writing goal without surpassing. I MET IT!!!! And that makes me very very heppy.
Monday was, as predicted, a total bust. I left at 8:30 am and returned home at 8:30 pm. Made some cash, which will come in handy for anniversary.
Tuesday – edited 15 pages, wrote 10 pages. And I was so tired that it was all I could do just to get that much done.
On other writing related news, I attended a book launch at the British Council here in Colombo, Sri Lanka last night – with Fahim – for a book called Knox’s Words by Richard Boyle – he’s the editor of the magazine I write for. The book is all about the words that Knox (from 1600′s) has contributed to the English language that originate in Sri Lanka. We bought the book – Fahim and I are both geeks – and, while it’s a book with little commercial value, we’ll probably enjoy it anyway.
Interestingly enough, anaconda is a word of Sri Lankan origin. I didn’t know that until last night. So are beriberi, Buddha, palanquin, and a whole slew of others. Hmm.
Maybe I’ll use more Sri Lankan words in my novels, and they’ll make it into the OED in, oh, twenty or forty years, and quoting me????? I think I have a new goal . . .
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