Signal Boost

My friend, and fellow Write Fantastic author Juliet McKenna posts her thoughts on women, history and female characters in fantasy here: http://www.badreputation.org.uk/2011/08/15/the-representation-of-women-in-fantasy-what%E2%80%99s-the-problem-a-guest-post-by-author-juliet-e-mckenna/

Go read: it's excellent.

Metrics

Much better day today: 2120 new words. Chiachia is having far too much fun, and Liyan is about to indulge himself.




Skirt of the day: thunderstorm cotton. (It's a mixed and rather loud print in grey, mauve, grey-yellow and white. Thunderstorm is what it makes me think of.)