Writa-a-Thon-ing Gets Hot and Steamy

Happy Fourth of July! For some of you, that means Happy Monday. For the rest, Happy American Independence Day.

It's been a challenging week. Record high temperatures, humidity heading for the stratosphere, monsoon storms all around us. We got a little rain Saturday, which felt wonderful, but nothing serious. Yet. Other places have been getting it instead. The monsoon giveth, the monsoon taketh away. My brain cells can tell you all about it. I've been reduced to working Pook in the morning before breakfast--and if that isn't desperation, you don't know how much Not A Morning Person I am.

Challenges or no challenges (and brain cells or no brain cells), I have been Clarion Write-a-Thon-ing, if not lj-ing. 2544 more words since Tuesday. So now I've got:

27483 / 100000
(27.48%)

Hey, it's progress.

Here's a few of the week's words:

"We are all geniuses. That's the splendor of what we are. But I won't die. I have our brave Colonel to keep me safe, and a few skills of my own. I can shoot a gun."

"Yes, and hit the side of a barn," she said.