Here it is– the first official day of Winter Break (though I just finished my weekend).  I’m planning to write, write, write over the next two weeks.  My goal this year was to write (or edit or revise) eight pages a day for 2013.  Thanks to a lot of writing over the summer, I’m actually going to finish out the year ahead.  For 2014, I’m going to try and up that to ten per day.

I’m working on chapter 12 of The Sorceress and her Lovers.  This is a long chapter with a lot of things happening.  It’s filled with dinosaurs, which is one of my favorite things about this setting.

It’s only two days until Christmas, which is a quiet time at our house these days (I’m not complaining).  My kids are grown, but don’t have kids of their own yet, and older family members have passed on one way or another.  My daughter will come over and eat (my son lives at home still) and curiously enough, they are the people I’d most like to sit down to a meal with.  My wife and I enjoy spending time together and so we will– she can still stand me after almost 32 years together.  I plan to stop and think about how happy and how lucky I am at least once every day for the next two weeks.

Merry Christmas and happy holidays to everyone.