The Daily Cabal is celebrating its one-year anniversary! For a year now, little stories have appeared every weekday morning, written by a bunch of people. I've been contributing since last November, and so far I've have had a great time writing for the Cabal and reading the contributions from the other Cabalists.

In celebration of the anniversary, we've all written a story that starts with a sentence given to us by jaylake. Mine is "In Oranges". Follow the link to the next story at the top of that page and you'll find dbraum's, and from there you can keep clicking through to the others put up last week. More are following this week.

Go read! I hope you enjoy our little offerings.

If you do like what we're doing, and want to keep reading, there's an LJ feed for the stories: the_daily_cabal

(I have a feeling that Roland, the character of "In Oranges," is going to appear in more fiction. Possibly even a novel of her own, someday. She's clinging to my brain in that persistent way already.)

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As before, what I have achieved this week:

07/04 - 1,095 words on ch12 of TBQ
08/04 - social life
09/04 - 266 words on TBQ + DeVotchKa!
10/04 -
11/04 - editing pass through “SA,P,N,R”
12/04 - read through “SA,P,N,R” + family time
13/04 - 531 words on ch12 of TBQ

Thursday saw me being brain-dead, on account of getting fewer than 5 hours' sleep after the DeVotchKa concert. I might have been able to write in the morning, but by the time I got home from work and had been to the gym and my dentist appointment, I struggled to glue thoughts together. I need my 6 hours minimum, much as I wish I could be creative with less.

But on other occasions, forcing myself is necessary and worthwhile -- I felt like writing nothing this morning, but managed my daily goal, as well as a pretty good amount of reading and lounging around.

Need to do more The Bone Queen this week, if I can. At least I sorted out my problems with chapter 12, which hopefully I can finish soon.

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