Words: 2000 (in the form of 60 minutes) revising “Pithea.” My hard copy is a mess with all of the scene shifting I’ve been doing. I’ll probably work on getting it transferred into the computer tomorrow or Saturday, while it’s still fresh in my mind. Meanwhile, Missy has had all of her visitors and is in the process of meeting Jonathan for the first time. He’s amongst my favorite characters (and that’s considering I love most of them). He’s supposed to be from a different country–in fact, from a country no one in Pithea would really have heard of. So I tried to have him talk a little differently, but it just came out southern hick. So I’m toning that down for now and hope I figure out a way to make his speech stand out a bit.
Month: May 2015
Daily Challenge Check-in: May 6, 2015
Words: 2500 (in the form of 75 minutes) revising “Pithea.” There are several scenes at the beginning of part 3, as Missy deals with a personal tragedy, that I’m realizing as I go through it now are all mixed up. They make much more sense in a different order. That’s what I spent over an hour working on tonight. Now Leahna tells Missy more about her friend Alexander, but not until after Missy’s had a bit of a meltdown and calms down again. Also, I’d left out any indications of the time of year, as it’s nearly winter at this point in the story, so I made Missy a little colder.
Daily Challenge Check-in: May 5, 2015
Words: 2104 revising “Pithea” with two of my sisters over Skype. Also known as the 39th meeting of the Tri-County Sisterhood of the Traveling Book. We got through about 6 1/2 pages of double-spaced text. That’s definitely on the higher end. At one point, it was noted that we had gone through a lot of pages without being slowed down by anything. Shortly after that, we did end up spending a lot of time on something we couldn’t see eye-to-eye on. Still, I’m happy with the end result. Right near the end, we came across an issue that could have really screwed up some parts of the story that I really like. We have a solution that should work, but I will have to do some rewriting to fix those parts.
Daily Challenge Check-in: May 4, 2015
Words: 2000 (in the form of 60 minutes) revising “Pithea.” Missy’s outburst with her mom has been moved to a time that makes more sense. Also, the reader is getting a bit of foreshadowing regarding the dangerous Lost Gresnorte, and I remembered it’s nearly winter in the story and plan to make that more clear.
A Journey of Words 