February 28th – 184,420 words.

After a broken day, Wednesday, today was once more back in the flow. The best analogy would be a salmon swimming upstream – today I was in calm waters in a flat section of the river, and as a result, I was able to write smoothly and quickly. Yesterday, my progress had been broken up by stray thoughts about other projects, and other life events external to writing – the rocks in the rapids.

Wednesday, I hit the target just after teatime, today, exactly 6 hours earlier. Early enough to be dragged out for some family retail therapy. That’s the problem when March looms on the horizon for this family – too many birthdays, special days, commemorative days and of course, this year, Easter. Early March becomes a very expensive time as a result. Still it means there’s a lot to celebrate and parties and celebrations are always fun – aren’t they?