August 6

August 7, 2014September 9, 2019 / Kristi / Leave a comment

Time worked: 2:26

Work done: First meeting of the Tri-County Sisterhood of the Traveling Book. We may have to use an acronym for that. Okay, so that’s not what we’re really going to call ourselves, but in the absence of a name, I went with some things that were thrown around as ideas, for now. My sisters have been reading through my first draft, and two (out of three) are done with it. We are planning to have regular meetings over Skype to compare notes and hopefully fix this story up right. Tonight’s almost two and a half hour meeting went way longer than we’d planned (the plan was an hour). That was mostly because I revealed some hidden things that readers of the book wouldn’t otherwise know, so they can help me make sure the story reflects them correctly, and that everything works okay. Those secrets spawned many questions. We didn’t even get to the text, and there are still more questions that need answered. I’m starting to see more clearly how complicated I’ve made my world. Still, I’m glad the first meeting has now happened, it worked over Skype, and there weren’t too many problems (other than me feeling bad at keeping them so long)!

August 5

August 6, 2014September 9, 2019 / Kristi / Leave a comment

Time worked: 1:11

Work done: Revising “Adventures in Pithea.” Adding new scenes that I typed up previously to their place in the overall story to prepare for the first meeting of the minds tomorrow night with my alpha readers.

August 4

August 4, 2014September 9, 2019 / Kristi / Leave a comment

Time worked: :46

Work done: Revising “Adventures in Pithea.” Still working on the battle scene. I’ve decided that Naolin doesn’t need to be quite so clumsy, and Quinn isn’t nearly damaged enough. I’ll have to do something about that.

Overall, I’m on page 82 out of 327, so there’s still a long road ahead.

Aug 1-3

August 3, 2014September 9, 2019 / Kristi / Leave a comment

Time worked: 0:00

With the anticipation of a weekend full of cleaning and organizing our house, I decided to take a break from revising. Somehow planning ahead to do no work on my writing feels better than thinking I still may, but not getting around to it. Tomorrow I hope to get right back into it.

On a more interesting note, I may have a lead on a real title for what is currently being dubbed “Adventures in Pithea.” I came up with an idea a few weeks ago and am waiting until I can mull it over with my alpha readers, hopefully this week. I’m excited, but have been very patient in waiting.

July 31

July 31, 2014September 9, 2019 / Kristi / Leave a comment

Time worked: :33

Work done: Revising “Adventures in Pithea.” Still writing out the action. Missy is going to the aid of Quinn, who is a lot less helpless this time around.

I’m so glad I worked extra last night to be only 20 minutes shy of my Camp NaNo goal today. I had a hard time getting 33 minutes, because I have a headache that’s quickly growing in strength. Even with that, though, I did fulfill my goal of working an average of an hour a day throughout July! Now to keep it going…maybe longer than a month this time.

July 30

July 31, 2014September 9, 2019 / Kristi / Leave a comment

Time worked: 1:32

Work done: Revising “Adventures in Pithea.” Not going to be counting pages for a few days, because I’m working on making an action scene. The whole thing is maybe 3-4 pages, but it’ll take me days to get it how I want it. Took me a lot of the time I spent today just trying to organize my thoughts. I compared the entire battle with the parallel battle from the original version of the story, and decided I liked some of the elements of the original that hadn’t made it into this version, so I’ll find a way to incorporate them. I also like the way some of the events flowed before, so I’m reordering some of the battle now too. So where I left off today, Julius was the first to be injured, but has been mended. And I’m not sure what Naolin was doing while Missy was trying to help Julius. Probably standing around being bored.

Also, I’m about 20 minutes shy of my goal for Camp NaNo, and tomorrow is the last day. I’ve totally got this.

July 29

July 30, 2014September 9, 2019 / Kristi / Leave a comment

Time worked: :56

Work done: Revising “Adventures in Pithea.” Not nearly as many pages done today, though I forgot to count. There were a lot of distractions tonight. Late start, dealing with a cold, and people talking to me a lot. I ended up giving up on the actual revising and finishing up with character profiling I started a while ago, to send to my sister who has recently finished the story and is ready to start comparing notes. Currently though, Naolin, Missy, and Julius are embroiled in a maddened fight for their lives. But I can’t help but wonder if I wrote it better the first time around.

July 28

July 28, 2014September 9, 2019 / Kristi / Leave a comment

Time worked: 1:10

Work done: Revising “Adventures in Pithea.” Sixteen pages done, very little rewriting. There’s a conversation between Naolin and Missy that I wrote without thinking too much (not tonight), and I really like most of it, including the unhappy end. It could do with some reminders of what’s going on while they’re talking, some description or whatnot, but that’ll still come later.

July 27

July 27, 2014September 9, 2019 / Kristi / Leave a comment

Time worked: 1:56

Work done: Revising “Adventures in Pithea.” Got through…some pages. I forgot to check how many. I spent most of the time, though, typing up much of the rewriting I’ve done by hand, so it would be on the computer somewhere. Right now, Missy is telling Julius what really happened back in Taellyn after everyone had gone home for the night, since it’s different now.

July 26