Getting there by tiny, tiny increments.

4,742 words overall. I'm aiming for 5,000 before I go to bed, which is looking pretty assured. I'd like to at least have finished this section on heroes -- which is now stupidly overlength and I'm wondering somewhat woefully how long the rest of it is going to turn out and how much editing I'll be doing Wednesday night -- but I still have quite a few things to squeeze into the conclusion of it and really, I want a break now. Sleeeeep. I've been awake without a nap since 7am. How I'm still typing coherently is amazing.

258 words left. So doable. I have the play.com page open on Spaced, ready to buy my reward for actually being vaguely motivated today. Then, bed. Mmmmmmm. Bed.

Before it all starts over again tomorrow. Only you know, faster. Oh, joy. >_<

edit: 5,020 words and I'm off to buy Spaced and sleep. I've written close on 4,000 words today, which could've been more if I hadn't been so distracted all morning. So it's at least feasible that I can finish this for Thursday, even if it's nothing like as good as it could've been if I'd left myself more than a night for editing.

Still, small victories. I'm just glad I'm finally approaching something like 'getting there'.

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Rizzo seems okay this morning. No idea what last night's dance of upside-down insanity was all about, unless he was trying to freak me out. Gr.

Really have to focus today. Yes.

edit: David Tennant has far too much fun being a woman. It's disturbingly hilarious. Also, he should say bollocks like that more often, like he's curling his tongue around the letters.

Spoke too soon on Rizzo. He's doing the lying-on-the-floor-not-moving thing now. :( Clinging to David Tennant pretending to be a woman to be happy over.

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Current overall word count: 6,271 words. It's looking likely that I'll be able to at least finish Gods and Mentors and probably the shorter Damsels sections tonight and even get them up to and over the right word count. Which means I'll have to do Monsters and Villains and the conclusion either (or probably) over tonight and tomorrow to get everything done, since I want to rewrite my introduction and the Heroes section needs no small amount of poking.

On the plus side I'm happier with the 800 words I've written of Gods and Mentors than anything else so far. As long as I manage to keep the damn thing from going off on tangents...

No sleep tonight then. Joy. Though am momentarily distracted from woe by this being the song I wrote Aeneas/Pallas slash to back in college. If I had another couple of weeks for dissertation (or I'd thought to start earlier), I could've totally slashed my four main heroes to get to understand them better, only that would involve slashing Bilbo and no, brain refuses to go there.

Odysseus/Shadow could be all manner of pretty and testosterone-y though. Odysseus/Shadow/Beowulf even more so. Mmmm. Someone write that for me to make my horrible day better?

edit: Also play.com, plz to be dispatching my Spaced now. I'm going to need it come Friday. Really, really need. So. Mush! *pokes*

edit: Do you ever wonder if you're actually achieving anything in your academic work or if you're merely wandering in circles of pretty prose that mean nothing? Because I feel like that now. Yeah. Even though I'm teaching myself things about fantasy that I never knew, like the perfect mentor being suspended between humanity and divinity and the fading, broken gods in American Gods can be seen to symbolise the human spirital condition right now. Or it could all be bollocks, I don't know.

Oh and current overall word count: 7,120 words. This is not a cause for joy as I still have at least 4-500 words at least left of the second section, an approx. 1,500 for the third and 2,000 for the last, bringing me in way over length without the conclusion even written. I'm debating cutting 'Damsels' down to 1,000 words, since two of my texts feature pretty much no women at all and as cool as Laura and Penelope are, there's no point stretching what there is to say about them longer when I'm short on space as it is. Oh, and my introduction needs rewriting. And the Heroes section tweaking. And all the footnotes and bibliography doing and I have so much work to get done in the next...oh, fifty hours?

Which is why I'm going to make dinner. Because I am hungry dammit. And play.com still has not dispatched my Spaced, so clearly checking my order status every five minutes is not spurring them to move faster.