It's 2 AM, the fear is gone

Wow. I thought I had a hard-on for Hammett after The Maltese Falcon. Then I started The Thin Man.

...

I'll be in my bunk.

I am very motivated to work on the Rain Dogs rewrite, now.

Surfers ride for love and wipe out when it hits them

More progress on TDC today. We're through the sea monster palaver and onto storming the villains' houseboat. I realized that two scenes ago I left a body on the floor and never figured out what happened to it. That might be important to figure out. Only 25k more to go, I think.

And then I wrote a sestina! It's a ghoulsmut sestina, and probably the sort of bad goth poetry one should write at 17 instead of 27, but I'm inordinately proud of it. I'll be even prouder if someone will give me money for it.

It's getting toward that time of the year where I count the stories I've finished so far and start gnashing my teeth. Perhaps I should finish another one.