Time worked: :41
Work done: Revising “Adventures in Pithea.” The gang is heading north…ish, and with less conversation this time around.
Daily Writing
August 18
Time worked: :39
Work done: Revising “Adventures in Pithea.” Got the gang out of the smoke and arguing over where to go. I’m not sure if I want them to be able to pick out directions or be disoriented.
August 14
Time worked: none
I homeschool my kids, and school starts Monday. Because I’m not completely ready yet, and have only a few days left, I’m going to put off working on my novel until Monday. Or until I get the rest of my lesson plans ready, whether that happens before Monday, or takes me into next week. This will be the only post until I have time to work on it again, so I don’t have to keep repeating myself.
August 13
Time worked: 1:15
Work done: Second meeting of the Tri-County Sisterhood of the Traveling Book. Mostly more revelations and explanations, but we did get into the text a little. Enough for some worry about how long this is going to take us. As I told them, though, I do think it’ll be easier, quicker, and smoother once we get into the actual story, instead of the introduction.
August 12
Time worked: :15
Work done: My brain wasn’t really in a great place for continuing on with that battle scene (which is actually nearing the end finally), so I spent some time just typing up previous scene rewrites. I’ve been doing all the work by hand, so it had to go into the computer sometime.
August 11
Time worked: 1:36
Work done: Working out answers to questions about my story world that have been brought up by one member of the Tri-County Sisterhood of the Traveling Book, in preparation for this week’s meeting. Also more battle scene rewriting for “Adventures in Pithea”. I may have found a way to use a smokescreen to solve an issue of location and placement. Literally.
August 10
Time worked: :30
Work done: More battle scene rewriting for “Adventures in Pithea”. The gang’s all back together again. Where there’s smoke, there’s fire, but no pink blob named Beanbag.
August 9
Time worked: unknown, but probably at least an hour
Work done: Discussing questions with one of the members of the Tri-County Sisterhood of the Traveling Book. Questions that came up during the meeting–many questions, not all of which I could answer. Some new ideas and solutions came up during that time, and we did our best to take notes to send to the third member of the TCSTB.
August 8
Time worked: :52
Work done: More battle scene rewriting for “Adventures in Pithea”. Evan has a more heroic entrance, Quinn is in bad shape, and Missy managed to impress Naolin. Then I threw more monsters at them so they have more reason to run away now.
August 7
Time worked: :45
Work done: More battle scene rewriting. Missy’s still off doing her thing, Julius and Naolin aren’t meshing as well as they thought, and Quinn is trying to hold his own and failing. A hero is about to enter.
A Journey of Words 