Time worked: :30
Work done: Working on synopsis and character profile for “Pursuit of Power,” which is the story I’ll be writing for NaNoWriMo, starting this weekend.
October 21
Time worked: 2:30
Work done: Twelfth meeting of the Tri-County Sisterhood of the Traveling Book. We got through just over three pages, and were pretty happy with it.
I have decided not to push myself to continue my individual revision of “Adventures in Pithea,” in anticipation of NaNoWriMo. I don’t want to burn out on the daily evening grind before November even starts. However, I would like to take some time in the next 10 days to write up a story introduction for “Pursuit of Power,” as well as at least one character introduction from the story, all from Drear’s POV (the narrator). We’ll see how that works out.
October 14
Time worked: 1:30
Work done: Eleventh meeting of the Tri-County Sisterhood of the Traveling Book. We got through two and a half pages, and made a few notes for things to come back to later.
I haven’t posted in a week, and that is thoroughly reflective of the work I’ve done in that time. Actually, that’s not completely true. I did go over my outline for “Pursuit of Power,” the story I plan to start writing for NaNoWriMo in a few weeks. The busy season at my work has reached its conclusion, with the last show we have to go away for happening last weekend. I’ve been tired, cranky, busy, and just generally unable to focus on writing. The once-over I gave my outline happened in the evening at the show, but it was all I could do the whole weekend. These weekly meetings are wonderful, because I know that no matter what, I’ll still be brought back to my story every week. I truly can’t say what my plans are for the next two weeks until NaNo starts. I feel I should keep going forward on my revision for “Adventures in Pithea,” but at the same time, I’m not sure it’s worth dragging myself back into that story, just to completely switch gears to a new story when November hits. But I also don’t feel like it’s good to do absolutely nothing. So we’ll see.
October 7
Time worked: 2:00
Work done: Tenth meeting of the Tri-County Sisterhood of the Traveling Book. We got through two and a quarter pages, which was further than I expected. We got a little hung up on some descriptions, only to decide we should skip all of that for now.
October 6
Time worked: :30
Work done: All spent sleepily transferring revisions from paper to computer.
October 2-5
Time worked: None
Work done: I was gone Friday through Sunday night, and preparing for that on Thursday night. It was a busier weekend than the last time I was gone, so I had no real time to work.
October 1
Time worked: :35
Work done: Revision for “Adventures in Pithea,” working on the TCSTB shared document.
September 30
Time worked: 2:30
Work done: Ninth meeting of the Tri-County Sisterhood of the Traveling Book. We got through over two and a half pages, beating last week’s record. We are now into chapter 3. Before the meeting, I also spent some time working on the outline for the story I’ll be writing for NaNoWriMo in a month.
September 29
Time worked: :45
Work done: Revising “Adventures in Pithea.” The gang is hanging in limbo as I make some decisions about prop items that may or may not be where they were before and an accidental lie that needs correcting.
September 28
Time worked: 1:07
Work done: Revising “Adventures in Pithea”–like, actual revision! The gang is much less confused about what small village is where on their island. And now they’re underground and exploring dangerous places. I also worked a little on transferring earlier revisions from paper to computer.
