Doooughnut!

Is Kung Fu Hustle the awesomest movie ever? Signs point to yes.

I want a guqin full of sword-wielding ghosts.

And on the second day of novelling my true love gave to me...

3589 words, and a partridge in a pear tree.

4916 / 67500 words. 7% done!

Two more scenes down, hopefully with a little less suck.

Words Word don't know: ichor, deadlands, livor, goth, saponification, migmatites, melanistic

To steal a metric from magicnoire:

Opening lines:
Down and down and down. Nothing all around them, echoing and infinite, Caliban's hand the only thing Holly feels. She keeps her eyes closed against the dark.

Closing lines:
Cate lets Rebecca pull her up; the breeze chills her sweat-damp skin as she stands. The German family hovers nearby--gawking, or making sure she doesn't need more help. The man is gone.

She wipes her palm on her pants before anyone sees the blood.

The beauty of this book is that it's a travelogue with ghouls. Visit exciting places in Europe and the Middle East! Look at dead bodies! Run from monsters! Learn recipes from the best Anubite chefs!

And now I will have pizza and vegetate for a while.