An update on the shoebox house. It is now being lived in by Aragorn, stormtoopers, and the Usagi Yojimbo action figure that usagiguy sent Theo a couple of years ago.

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Dog update: Athena chases bunnies every chance she gets.

She's never caught one.

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Homeschool update. Today is “Scholar’s Choice,” which means Theo gets to choose what to work on, so he's writing “The Roald Book,” which is thinly disguised Alanna fanfic, except that the main character is a kind, gentle boy who brings bandages and helps his friends when they get beat up, and has a dog named Bunny. Roald is so totally a Gary Stu character.

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Friend update: Today is gregvaneekhout's birthday!

You may well wonder what Greg has to do with bunnies.

Writing update: I’m hard at work on the sequel to Winterling, which is called The Summerkin. The birthday Greg says that “Summerkin” sounds like "bunnies" to him, so whenever I send myself the document (it’s how I make a backup), the subject line of the email is “Bunnykin.”

I wrote a rabbit into the book, just for Greg. Unfortunately, it is a dead rabbit. Not a very nice birthday present, really.

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More writing update. In April I’m going to the Blue Heaven workshop, which means I have an end-of-March deadline for Bunnykin. Thus I have set myself a 500-word-per-day goal. Usually I’m a binge writer, which means I tend to write, like, 5000 words over a couple of days and then nothing for three weeks. So I don’t know if this daily-goal thing is going to work out.

Fortunately, the book has its claws in me right now, so I’m zooming along. Yesterday I did 3000 words.

Still, I have to hit today's 500-word goal.

If I don't, the bunnies are going to get me.

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