cooking and "i think i can" writing

i did not get any sewing done today, nor did i knit.  i made a big crock pot full of chicken chili, which involved four rounds of cooking stuff in the pressure cooker first - black beans, pinto beans, and then chicken.  after the chicken was cooked and cooled, i picked the meat off the bones and put the bones back in the pressure cooker to make chicken broth.  now the chili is happily simmering in the crock pot.  i just finished the 2,500 word goal for the virus novel.  today was one of those days where the words and ideas were flowing rather slowly.  i guess you could call it a molasses writing day.  i got it done, though.  i just have to keep telling myself that i need to dump the ideas out onto the page first, then sort them out later.   i can't put the puzzle together without looking at the pieces first.  i also got some work done on revising the nonfiction book i have written.  right now i am working on just retyping it - i got another 2,500 words typed up and revised it a little bit as i went along.  it has been so long since i have worked on it, i feel the need to just get the ideas back into my head before i do much else with it.  it is all over the place as far as the writing style goes.  i really do need to tighten it up a lot.  the ideas are in there; i just need to organize and refine them.  it is a strange feeling to switch gears like that - switch from nonfiction to fiction as i write each day.  i think it works well, though.  i don't do well trying to work on two different fiction pieces at the same time.  i caught myself calling the main character of the novel i am working on by the name of the main character of another novel that is on the back burner right now!  this is when i am grateful for the "find and replace" feature on word processing programs!  i feel like 2,500 is a good goal to shoot for each day - not too much, but a stretch.  i will stick with that for now.