TUESDAY NOVEMBER 10th, NEWPORT

It is gorgeous outside! Forecast for the entire week is rain, but the sky over the ocean is open and blue. It's one of those shallow, gradual beaches, where the waves break in succession a dozen iterations deep, rolling foam half-way to the horizon. Beautiful, but cold - still shy this morning of 50 degrees...

It's funny - I had left yesterday totally blank, an open page - and I did not even make it half-way to my 5000 word goal. I wrote 2000, a respectable day's work, but I'm still not caught up. I talk about being free of distractions here - but the biggest distraction of all - the internet - is ever present. Between email, forums, facebook, and this blog, it is very easy to not write. I may have to start turning it off at some point - and leaving it off for most of the day. Distracting as it is, though - it is great for looking up words and doing research on the fly. I wonder if there's some easy application that can be used to temporarily block non-work related websites...

In any case, I'm checking out a local yoga class in about an hour, and I'll be attending my first Newport write-in tonight. It's nice to have some solid blocks to organize my time around.

TOTAL WORD COUNT: 15,059
Words to be written: 34,941