Lots to do today! I'd like about 4,500 words on my novel to finish up the disaster draft and make plans for the ensuing rough draft starting tomorrow.

I'd also like to finish my rough draft from the critiques of a short story (TC) that I'd like to put up on my queue on Tuesday for it to come up on the rounds on Wednesday. This is, in my opinion, the last big polish for this story, and I've got three others I'd like to fix up, too, that have already gone though the critique process.

Then I've got a really super-cool idea for combining two stories--well, one story and one other character that I can hardly bear to delay on, but I really have to get this other stuff done. Mostly the 4,500 words, which, I have 500 done, so only 4,000 more to go! This will then be a 67,500 + a few extras, of what I call a disaster draft of a novel.

The disaster draft is set so that if I die, it automatically self-destructs, because I would just die of embarrassment if anyone ever saw this sucker

I then want to rework it and start the rough draft next week.

Plus the house is a wreck. I'm dead tired when I come home from work, so everything just gets left for me on the weekends. I've gotten all the mopping done, so it's just the vacuuming and general stuff left. Not too bad, really, but a lot of miscellaneous piles. My eldest daughter is driving me insane with how messy she is and how disregarding! I want to take her cereal bowls and her kitchen messes and her papers and her dropped towels and slopovers and just .