Time worked: 1:01
Work done: Rewriting and revising “Adventures in Pithea.” Just shy of two pages today. I may have to stop counting how many pages I get done in a day, unless it really picks up. This is depressing. At this rate, I’ll be done in December. Except not even then, because I’ll stop working on this in November to write a new story for NaNoWriMo. On the plus side, I’m apparently only about 5 minutes behind my monthly goal for Camp NaNo now. That’s good.
Time worked: 1:46
Work done: Rewriting and revising “Adventures in Pithea.” Two pages down, 300 to go.
Time worked: :30
Work done: More revising of AiP. Then I got tired and took a nap. Not from the work I was doing, though, but because I got five hours of sleep last night. Then I went to a concert and was home by 10:30, but spent the rest of the night posting videos from the concert on Facebook. Now I’m almost 1 full hour of work behind for Camp NaNo. Guess I won’t be able to allow myself to slack off much this week.
Time worked: :20
Work done: Revising AiP, probably more rewriting, but I don’t remember. I did it a bit after midnight, before I went to bed, thinking I’d do more later in the day, and didn’t.
Time worked: 1:44
Work done: More revising of AiP. Got through three pages, with a decent amount of rewriting, so I feel pretty good about it.
Time worked: 1:03
Work done: More revising of AiP. Got through part of a page, but lots of words were written. With how much rewriting I’m doing, I feel like I should be keeping a word count tally, but I’m doing it by hand. I have no desire to count them up. So I didn’t get far in the story, but I wrote a lot. Still have the itch to write something new, but I can’t seem to make myself do that when I have this to do still.
Time worked: 1:00
Work done: More revising of AiP. I’ve finally made it out of that forest! In fact, another night has passed, and the main characters are on day two of a two-day trip. Soon, they’ll hit the big city, and then things will really get exciting!
Time worked: 1:28
Work done: More revising of AiP, finally finished the new description of the destroyed forest and the secrets contained within. Every time I have to say I’m still working on that, I feel like it’s just dragging on. But when I’m actually working on it, I don’t feel like it’s taking longer than it needs to. Hm. I have such a desire to write lately–not rewrite like I’ve been doing, but write something new. I probably should be anyway, writing practice and all. But I feel like if I put aside the revising to do that, and it takes half an hour of the time I have in my day to work on this, then I’m not getting the revising work done, and no progress will be made. Ugh.
Time worked: 1:21
Work done: More revising of AiP–I didn’t get far, but I did fix up some paragraphs that were very plain. It makes perfect sense that in NaNo, the focus is on quantity, because if you focus on quality, you can spend 45 minutes writing a few hundred words. It doesn’t really get you far. Unfortunately, that lack of quality can leave you with a whole book that needs fixing…I know that I would probably still be writing the first draft if I hadn’t sped through, ignoring how bad it was, but sometimes I miss the way I used to write. I don’t know why I don’t have that motivation without NaNo anymore.
Time worked: 1:41
Work done: A few pages of revising. A lot of it was rewriting some paragraphs that very poorly explained an anomalous forest and the fire that destroyed it. But work was done, and I’ve managed to find a way to stress less about adding descriptions. After I get past this part, because it’s kind of exposition-y, I should (hopefully) start moving more quickly.
A Journey of Words 