It was tinned haggis night tonight as that was all we could find - a bit salty but not too bad.

I hope those who celebrate Burns night had a good one.

The sequel to John Gordon's 'Giant Under the Snow', 'Ride the Wind' is really hard to find, but I discovered there is a copy in the Merril Collection in the Lillian H. Smith branch, Toronto Library.
www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/merril/
Today I sat down and read it cover to cover (its reference only).

I smell freelance word rate discourse coming.

Let's do some basic maths on full time writing work.

Take:
the number of days you write as that day's work as X
the average number of words you output on those days as Y
the average word rate you get paid as Z

X * Y * Z = your annual earnings