Things which are good

[annathepiper]

0. SIXTY THOUSAND WORDS achieved! Wrote 498 words tonight, bringing Chapter 17 up to 1,837 and the word count as a whole up to 60,204.

1. Two, count 'em, two sightings of the Really Cute Tester at work today. The first time he saw me in the lunchroom and smiled, and the second time I was going down the hallway on my way to the kitchen, bouncing with my iPod and Great Big Sea, and he was coming the other way and he smiled and asked me how I was doing. I think he looked amused. And GOSH he's cute. *^_^* Have I swooned enough? Okay done!

2. Mmmmm sushi. spazzkat, solarbird, mamishka and I all went out to sushi tonight, and there was a new chef at I-heart who had apparently only just last month come over to the States from Tokyo. His English was quite limited, but he made up for it by being very friendly and sweet. Plus, he gave us swordfish, which none of us had ever tried before. It was extremely tasty, and sweet, which was very unexpected in sushi!

3. I don't think you all heard me. I said SIXTY THOUSAND WORDS! :D :D :D

Comments

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

CONGRATULATIONS ANNA!! *CHEERS WILDLY*!!!

[annathepiper]

Next stop: 70K! *giggles* Were you this excited when you wrote your first sixty K, Kit? :D

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

Um, no, but I wasn't counting. I still don't know how many words my first novel was. :)

[annathepiper]

Okay, how about when you got your first good answer back from an editor? ;)

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

Y'know, I've gotten two kinds of responses from editors, across the board.

1: form letters. Means nothing.

2. positive responses, varying from "I really liked this but it's not for us," to "We'd like to make you an offer."

When I got the "we'd like to make you an offer" I was incoherent for three days. So I'd say, yes, I was just a *little* excited. :)

[annathepiper]

Did I mention HURRAY KIT!!!!!!! :D

I did? Well, it warrants mentioning again!

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

The heck with the 60K words -- swordfish at I heart Sushi? The one at eastlake?

*AND* two sightings of the Cute Tester?

Oh yes, *AND* 60,204 words?

WOOOOOOOOOO-HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

[solarbird]

Yep, the one on Eastlake.

And if you talk Japanese at him, he gives you slices two inches wide, and batshit insane long. I've never had a bigger serving of nigiri in my life.

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

Unfortch, the only Japanese I can claim to know is English loan words -- biru, nekutie, etc. I don't think that would work.

[solarbird]

The servings were already awfully big, so no worries. ^_^

[solarbird]

Just add "kudasai" to a noun and boom! instant "please give me" sentence. ^_^

unagi kudasai - unagi, please.

Link words with "to" - long O, as in "toe" - to make the order more complex!

unagi to sake kudasai - unagi and salmon, please

or (to make it clearer)

unagi to sake nigiri kudasai - to make sure you get salmon on rice, two pieces, instead of rice wine. ^_^

[annathepiper]

*giggles!* Thanks! And yeah, solarbird has it right, the guy gave us ENORMOUS pieces of nigiri. And looked so stunned and charmed when she tried to speak Japanese to him! It was neat. :)

Also, it's amazing how much less insane the parking is there now that they're charging for it. Money well spent.

[solarbird]

It got ten kinds of funny when I told him I was Anna's wife. (And vise versa. ^_^ ) There was amusingly flustered confusion, but then he said, "oooh, you're very, very good friends!" and now that I think about it, I've heard it put that way before by Japanese people. It made me giggle. ^_^

[cafiorello.livejournal.com]

woo, I say, woo-hoo!
Cathy

[annathepiper]

::dances around::

Hey Cathy! Did Carl hit HIS 50K for Nanowrimo? I don't think I heard!

[cafiorello.livejournal.com]

No, but he was also completing his first college class in a couple of decades. So he figured if he was writing AT ALL other than homework, he was doing OK! I'll have to ask him if anything readable came of it.
Cathy

[annathepiper]

Whoa, good for Carl then, getting writing in while also doing schoolwork. :)

[gerimaple.livejournal.com]

oh my! what an evening! GO ANNA!!!!!!

[annathepiper]

It was a Good Day. :D

I wonder if I can get this book finished by New Year's. Meep! :D

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

You can do it! You can do it! GOOOOOOOO ANNA!

[annathepiper]

HrMRMRmRmRmmm. I DO have Christmas Eve and Christmas off... that ought to be worth a good chunk of writing time... and then there's Longest Night. Of course, if I write during an all-night vigil in which I expect to be powered by caffeine and chocolate, I may, as has been frequently suggested to me that I should do, come out with a chapter that reads nothing but "Badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger MUSHROOM MUSHROOM..."

[cafiorello.livejournal.com]

LOL! I made the mistake of going to the badger page when Derek was around and now I have a 13-year-old jumping out of the shadows going badger badger badger badger badger SNAKE! when I least expect it. ;)
Cathy

[annathepiper]

*chortle* Oh, I can just see it. :D

And have you seen this link, while we're on the topic? ;)

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

*LAUGH*

badger badger badger badger badger MUSHROOM MUSHROOM!

*laugh*!!!!

[annathepiper]

60,204 words and not a single one of them is 'badger' or 'mushroom'. It's HIGH TIME!

[poetry-lady.livejournal.com]

go Anna! go Anna!!!!!!

[annathepiper]

Thanks babe! All the encouragement folks give me here on LJ should be enough to power me through a whole trilogy! ^_^