Words/Time: 55 minutes, half of which was spent doing some of the activities in my third post of NaNo prep activities. Tomorrow evening I’m leaving for the rest of the weekend, and I’d like to get on to the next step of my NaNo prep posts–starting to plot. So the rest of that time was spent writing that post so it can go up on Saturday, when I’ll be out of town with no internet.
500 Words Challenge
Daily Challenge Check-in: September 16, 2015
Words/Time: 1 hour, 12 minutes, the majority of which was revising “Pithea.” I used some of that time to put edits from my hard copy into the computer. The rest was spent doing a broad overview of the Big Scene near the end of the book that I’m about to start into. I had to make sure some logistics were correct, and then I started revising.
I started my writing time doing some of the activities in my third post of NaNo prep activities. I used a vastly different than normal (for me) approach to describing the setting image (1) and the scene I wrote in response to the following elements that were generated by the plot generator site (2) took a weird turn.
The whole cave thing made the scene odd to begin with.
I left it hanging, partly because I wasn’t sure I liked where it was going, and partly because it would take too long to write the rest. And partly because I was writing by hand, as most of the results of these activities haven’t been very long. I figured, since I was trying to generate ideas for NaNoWriMo, it would make perfect sense to write them in my NaNo notebook.
Daily Challenge Check-in: September 15, 2015
Words/Time: 2134 words revising “Pithea” with two of my sisters over Skype. Also known as the 55th meeting of the Tri-County Sisterhood of the Traveling Book. We got through just over 7 pages of double-spaced text. We had to stop about an hour early tonight, so a shorter amount was expected. We took some time discussing how to come up with terminology for this fictional world. I’ve been trying for a few years now to find a replacement for words like “spell” and “cast” in regards to the Power, which is a magic-like element, but I don’t want to simply use magic-related words. So we do have a few ideas, but the final decision has been put off so we could move on to more revision.
Daily Challenge Check-in: September 14, 2015
Words/Time: 40 minutes, half of which was revising “Pithea.” I further streamlined Missy and Drear’s conversation and stopped at the beginning of last big scene, which contains the climax and other major things.
I started my writing time again doing some of the activities in my second post of NaNo prep activities. I fell behind in my own assignment, because I’ve had sporadic time to work on this lately. Our 5-year-old is in an awful “fight bedtime” phase right now, which narrows my normal evening writing time by a lot. Plus I still have revising work I need to be doing.
Daily Challenge Check-in: September 13, 2015
Words/Time: 35 minutes, 20 of which was revising “Pithea.” The initial discussion between Missy and Drear makes more sense now, since before it was written as if Missy had been gone for 8 hours, when it was really more like 1.5.
I started my writing time doing one of the activities in my second post of NaNo prep activities. I only did the one because I knew my writing time was limited and I needed to get some revision in. I wrote a good bit for it though, and my hand started hurting quickly. It does that when I write by hand now…guess I’m not used to it enough anymore.
Daily Challenge Check-in: September 12, 2015
Words/Time: 20 minutes, adding revisions for “Pithea” that were made on paper into the computer. I’m too tired to do anything else and heading off to bed early.
Daily Challenge Check-in: September 11, 2015
Words/Time: 55 minutes, 35 of which was revising “Pithea.” Missy and Leahna’s conversation about what Leahna is mixed up in is more streamlined. It gives Missy (and the reader) actual info, but I’ll wait for the opinions of the TCSTB about whether that part should stay or remain more of a mystery. Also, Missy realizes even more about why the bad man who tried to kill them all seemed so familiar. Another point I’m actually not sure should stay.
I again started my writing time doing some of the activities on the post I made yesterday with NaNo prep activities. I did two more of the activities–3 and 6. I won’t be able to do to 4 without remembering to do it during the day (my writing time is almost always at night), and the picture for number 5 proved to be too difficult to write for, since I know who they are.
Tomorrow there will be a new list.
Daily Challenge Check-in: September 10, 2015
Words/Time: 48 minutes, half of which was revising “Pithea.” Missy and Leahna now wait to talk about Missy’s concerns until they have left the company of Alexander. And Missy is not quite as in the dark or naive as she was before about Leahna’s own part in Alexander’s questionable actions.
But I started my writing time doing some of the activities on the post I made today with NaNo prep activities. I have a partial outline for the story I have been planning to write for this year’s NaNo. It is another in the same world as “Pithea.” I’m still working on editing “Pithea” (though I’m actually seeing the light at the end of that tunnel), and then I have “Pursuit of Power” to start revising. It is not the most important thing right now for me to add another novel to that pile.
So I’m going to take some time out of my normal revising work over the next week or so and do some of the activities that I’m suggesting for others. I only got to two of them, and then realized how difficult it would be to make something up for the second image, since I know those people and what’s going on in that picture. Not impossible, but more time than I wanted to spend, since I still had normal revision work to get to.
And while I may still decide to write the story I’ve already outlined, maybe I’ll go with something I produce from these activities instead. There’s still a lot of time to decide.
Daily Challenge Check-in: September 9, 2015
Words/Time: 20 minutes working on getting scenes from “Pithea” into Scrivener in my quest to organize chapters. I’ve also been working a lot on getting a blog post ready that is full of story seed prompts in anticipation of NaNoWriMo.
Daily Challenge Check-in: September 8, 2015
Words/Time: 2825 words revising “Pithea” with two of my sisters over Skype. Also known as the 54th meeting of the Tri-County Sisterhood of the Traveling Book. We got through 7 1/2 pages of double-spaced text. We started almost an hour late again, but at least we managed to get a higher amount done this week. And now I have to come up with a description for a fictional animal that Missy has encountered. I dislike that part of writing speculative fiction.
A Journey of Words 