I did a stupid, stupid thing last night. Purely by accident, of course, but somewhere between 500-1000 words have now vanished forever from my Word file. I have no idea how - I accidentally pressed a few buttons, and it magically deleted the first quarter of the chapter. I also lost the last few lines of my previous chapter, but since I'd only just finished writing them, they were easy to replicate, with the original wording intact.

Still irks me though.

Also, my bedroom has been invaded by spiders - one on the bed, one each side of the bed, and one fell out of my nightie when I picked it up. I think maybe they're trying to tell me something. Like don't try to get some sleep. I've been obliging them, mostly because I don't have any choice in the matter.

However. Data losses and spiders aside, my word count is lookin' pretty darn good. My story... does sort of lack a coherent plot at the moment, but I'm getting there. As soon as I re-write the beginning and then finish off Chapter Five, I'll at least have tied together some threads. Also, I've upped my word goal. I'm just writing too efficiently to keep 10k as my goal - I've been averaging over 1, 00o words per day, and I've signed up for a consistency challenge at the 1, 000-word-per-day level.

Of course, my main problem is that I write like mad for the first few days, then the stress of RL creeps in and I can't write anything else for the rest of the month. Hopefully I can stop that habit with the challenge. The world needs more challenges.

However, so far I've had to deal with irate husbands coming back from the dead to rescue their spaced-out wives from state-sanctioned medical experiments, even though the character in question's being saved from the experiment means she can't escape herself when it's half-way through and go on the war-extending rampage-like thing that would have made her the villain of the piece.

I've also been afflicted with a crazy ex-mercenary who thinks he's Frank Spencer.

So here's the word count:

6,212 / 10,000 (62.1%)