Words: 995 written. Nothing story-related, just some dream journaling. There was a lot to write about this time. More than ever so far. It took me half the day to get it all down, because I had to take care of other things, like getting lunch for my 4-year-old. Fortunately, I’d had some pretty vivid dreams that stuck with me long enough to get most of it down. Unfortunately, I had a headache most of the day, so I decided to not push myself to get any revising work in.
Month: January 2015
Daily Challenge Check-in: January 15, 2015
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Words: 844 revising “Adventures in Pithea.” I’m pretty sure I solved the problem I mentioned yesterday. The smart guy of the group will be able to figure out how to use the technology, but because he gets enough information from the bad guy and from research left behind by the dead scientists in the hidden facility they’re in. Most of today’s ground covered was incorporating that in all of the areas that referenced this situation.
Daily Challenge Check-in: January 14, 2015
Words: 925 revising “Adventures in Pithea.” I’m still unsure how to incorporate one element that is crucial to the current scene. I don’t know if I should make the smart guy of the group inexplicably able to figure out how to use technology he’s not familiar with (use it in a minor way, mind you, but still, it seems a bit of a leap), or place a prop in the story that would be easy for them to figure out how to use, but seems too convenient (and would be awkward to introduce smoothly). I thought I’d figured it out. Or at least I think I remember thinking I’d figured it out. But now I’m back to not knowing what to do.
Daily Challenge Check-in: January 13, 2015
Words: 536 revising “Adventures in Pithea” with two of my sisters over Skype. Also known as the twenty-third meeting of the Tri-County Sisterhood of the Traveling Book. We got through 1 2/3 pages of double-spaced text and had some vocabulary lessons.
Daily Challenge Check-in: January 12, 2015
Words: 1036 revising “Adventures in Pithea.” Jarrett is making everyone suspicious, especially Naolin.
After a month of trying to drag myself back to this point, I’m glad I finally sat down and did actual editing work tonight. Hopefully this will be the start of a stretch of work.
Daily Challenge Check-in: January 6, 2015
Words: 481 revising “Adventures in Pithea” with two of my sisters over Skype. Also known as the twenty-second meeting of the Tri-County Sisterhood of the Traveling Book. We got through 1 1/3 pages of double-spaced text, argued over whether to use “to” or “for,” and learned something new about systems in place in the story world. Not bad for our first time back after 2 weeks off, and everyone being sick, or getting over being sick.
Daily Challenge Check-in: January 5, 2015
Words: 400 written. Nothing story-related, just some dream journaling. I’m really only hitting the 500-word-goal every other day, at best. I did read over and start thinking about a section of “Adventures in Pithea” that I need to work on next, but didn’t focus on it for long enough to call it anything.
Daily Challenge Check-in: January 4, 2015
Words: 1089 written. Nothing story-related, just some writing practice using a prompt.
I have not had the proper energy level or focus needed to get back to revising, but tomorrow will be the first day back from Christmas break and a normal work week for my husband, and hopefully just normal everything. So hopefully I’ll be able to get back to normal writing work too.
Meanwhile, I downloaded an e-book that was free on Amazon today titled 1000 Awesome Writing Prompts and picked a random prompt to write from. I don’t usually do this, but since it wasn’t related to my series of stories in any way (and therefore contains no spoilers or confusing out-of-context references), in case anyone wants to read the resulting writing, I’m posting it here:
Prompt: Your webcam turns on, there’s a person you’ve never met before on the screen that seems equally surprised to see you.
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Daily Challenge Check-in: January 2, 2015
Words: 252 written. Nothing story-related, just some dream journaling. But since I was sick all day and had to work, I was glad to have at least done something.
Today’s was actually the 7th entry in the notebook I keep next to my bed and have turned into a dream journal. I started writing down dreams on Dec. 1 of last year. An exercise in my Now Write! book was to write for 12 minutes as soon as you wake up, without thinking, recording what you dreamed about. It suggests doing that every morning, even when you can’t remember a dream, to then write what you think you may have dreamed about. I don’t always have 12 minutes to spare in the morning, and I definitely don’t have the mental capacity to make up something out of nowhere when I first wake up. So I’ve stuck to only writing when I can remember a dream, and it’s vivid enough or striking enough to be worth writing down (so no jumbled messes or dreams where I can remember a couple of elements but would take two sentences to write out).
The great thing about the challenge I’m doing is that if you don’t get all your words in, you’re not behind for the next day. You start every day new. Really, it’s in the rules. So though I didn’t meet the 500 words today, I don’t have to try for 750 tomorrow. Speaking of tomorrow–though I’m not feeling well, I’m hoping to get some real revising done on “Adventures in Pithea” tomorrow.
Daily Challenge Check-in: January 1, 2015
Words: 4658 revising “Adventures in Pithea.” Maybe more like reading. I haven’t touched this story since early in December, so I have to re-familiarize myself with where I left off. And I was at a family Christmas event, so reading was all I could really do. But it was something.
A Journey of Words 