Feb. 6th, 2006
Progress continues...
That Angel Thing
Words today: 617
Words total: 6654
Darling: The seasons wore on slowly outside, but Asha made her own winter.
"Flotsam"
Words today: 515
Words total: 2053
Tyop: long-gingered
And THEN I was mugged by something new, yet another frickin' ocean story, inspired by the Halfmoon Reef lighthouse . It is evil and wicked and nearly full-grown in my head. Like Athena, but hexagonal with an oil lamp on top.
Fun research of the day: "The rations provided per keeper at Halfmoon Reef in the 1870s consisted of two half-barrels of salt pork, the same amount of salt-beef, two barrels of flour, fifty pounds of brown sugar, twenty-four pounds of unground green coffee, fifty pounds of rice, four gallons of vinegar, ten gallons of peas or beans, and two barrels of potatoes." (T. Lindsay Baker, Lighthouses of Texas)
That Angel Thing
Words today: 617
Words total: 6654
Darling: The seasons wore on slowly outside, but Asha made her own winter.
"Flotsam"
Words today: 515
Words total: 2053
Tyop: long-gingered
And THEN I was mugged by something new, yet another frickin' ocean story, inspired by the Halfmoon Reef lighthouse . It is evil and wicked and nearly full-grown in my head. Like Athena, but hexagonal with an oil lamp on top.
Fun research of the day: "The rations provided per keeper at Halfmoon Reef in the 1870s consisted of two half-barrels of salt pork, the same amount of salt-beef, two barrels of flour, fifty pounds of brown sugar, twenty-four pounds of unground green coffee, fifty pounds of rice, four gallons of vinegar, ten gallons of peas or beans, and two barrels of potatoes." (T. Lindsay Baker, Lighthouses of Texas)