Words/Time: 1 hour, 48 minutes , adding revisions for “Pithea” that were made on paper into the computer, and then going on to add more to the scene I stopped in the middle of rewriting yesterday.
500 Words Challenge
Daily Challenge Check-in: September 6, 2015
Words/Time: 70 minutes, revising “Pithea.” Most of it was rewriting, as a scene in which Missy, Leahna, and Alexander (latter two being main characters of “Pursuit of Power“) recover from an encounter was kind of flat before. The scene also included Alexander learning some important information for the very first time, but things were disjointed and disorderly. So I’m working on smoothing it out and giving it more emotion now.
Daily Challenge Check-in: September 4, 2015
Words/Time: 15 minutes, working on a future blog post that I hope to have ready for this weekend (spoiler: it’s about NaNoWriMo). Our power went out today from 4:30 pm until 10:45 pm, after a severe thunderstorm. I wrote in a notebook for a bit, but the complete silence, lack of light as it got dark out, and overwhelming heat and humidity with little air movement was all very distracting. I’m glad I did something at least, though, since yesterday I was too sick to focus on writing. Fortunately, I’m nearly over that issue, so tomorrow, I plan to be productive.
Daily Challenge Check-in: September 2, 2015
Words/Time: 24 minutes, adding revisions for “Pithea” that were made on paper into the computer. I got that done much earlier in the day than usual, and it’s a good thing. I’ve had a cold coming on the last few days, and my condition rapidly deteriorated this afternoon. As of my normal evening writing time, my brain was completely mush. I may have excused no-writing-work days over the next few days.
Daily Challenge Check-in: September 1, 2015
Words/Time: 1621 words revising “Pithea” with two of my sisters over Skype. Also known as the 53rd meeting of the Tri-County Sisterhood of the Traveling Book. We got through 5 1/2 pages of double-spaced text. We started almost an hour late again, and this was the first time in a while we’ve done this little. There’s a lot going on in the lives of the people in the group, though, and sometimes it comes to the surface before we can get going.
Daily Challenge Check-in: August 30, 2015
Words/Time: 40 minutes, revising “Pithea.” I’ve been comparing a scene from this book with one in “Pursuit of Power,” in which the two storylines converge for a little bit. I wrote the scene two different ways, from sort of two different perspectives, and I’ve been going through them both to pick the best parts and make one single scene from that. I am almost completely done with this task, after which I’ll finally be going back to normal revising.
Daily Challenge Check-in: August 28, 2015
Words/Time: 20 minutes working on getting scenes from “Pithea” into Scrivener in my quest to organize chapters.
Most of this week, I’ve barely worked more than my minimum of 20 minutes in a day. I would feel bad that I haven’t done more, but what that tells me is that my personal challenge to do at least 20 minutes of work or 500 words of writing per day has at least kept me from doing nothing those days I may otherwise slack off. At least I can say I did something.
Daily Challenge Check-in: August 27, 2015
Daily Challenge Check-in: August 26, 2015
Daily Challenge Check-in: August 25, 2015
Words/Time: 3005 words revising “Pithea” with two of my sisters over Skype. Also known as the 52nd meeting of the Tri-County Sisterhood of the Traveling Book. We got through 10 pages of double-spaced text. We started almost an hour late again, but still got through a decent amount. We stopped right at a spot that is a relatively short info dump (2 1/2 paragraphs) that I’m questioning including. However, since the information is definitely important, I’ll have to work on a way to clear it up and even perhaps boil it down before next week.
A Journey of Words 