Production of quota

Didn't get started till mighty late today: it was the first day for a week when I really could lounge as opposed to getting up and hastening out of the house to write quota, and then I got diverted onto the complex job of beginning to pack up all of my things, including a vast number of books - I'm going back to New York on Wednesday afternoon, I'll be teaching again in the spring semester.

But I did in the end squeeze out quota.

(I am still disconcerted by the way the shape of the novel has suddenly come into focus for me over the last few days. I don't think it's going to be a very long novel - in fact I would be surprised if it comes in much over 65,000 words max, which means I really am pretty much halfway drafted...)

c. 1,100 words, for a total of 32,117 words

How to be inappropriate?

Daniel Nester leaves behind poetry and New York. (Link courtesy of Charlie Jane Anders.)

Manhattan paleolimnography

Geoff Manaugh on urban puddles.

Literary stardom

At Time Out NY, words of wisdom from local literary notables - including an apt quotation from Ed Park: "I like living in New York—a stimulating city, good for writing. I like being busy and being in the thick of things, even though I never go anywhere and only communicate via e-mail."