Words: 2104 revising “Pithea” with two of my sisters over Skype. Also known as the 39th meeting of the Tri-County Sisterhood of the Traveling Book. We got through about 6 1/2 pages of double-spaced text. That’s definitely on the higher end. At one point, it was noted that we had gone through a lot of pages without being slowed down by anything. Shortly after that, we did end up spending a lot of time on something we couldn’t see eye-to-eye on. Still, I’m happy with the end result. Right near the end, we came across an issue that could have really screwed up some parts of the story that I really like. We have a solution that should work, but I will have to do some rewriting to fix those parts.

Words: 1978 revising “Pithea” with two of my sisters over Skype. Also known as the 37th meeting of the Tri-County Sisterhood of the Traveling Book. We got through about 7 1/4 pages of double-spaced text. A good chunk again! We lost almost an hour of working time at the beginning of the meeting, too, so that means we really flew tonight. I’m trying not to think about how much we would have gotten through if we’d had that hour at the beginning.

Words: 1966 revising “Adventures in Pithea” with two of my sisters over Skype. Also known as the 36th meeting of the Tri-County Sisterhood of the Traveling Book. We got through about 7 1/2 pages of double-spaced text. So much tonight! There was a lot of skipping over whole paragraphs and resolving questions quickly. Being the one who wrote the original book, it makes me happy when a lot of my sentences are left alone. It means I did something right! (Okay, so I don’t mean to imply that the book as a whole needed a ton of revision, but we tend to get stuck on some areas, and we didn’t do that much tonight.)

Also, a breakthrough in the lack of a real title happened, and it was much simpler than I was making it. I have spent so much time looking for some great title that would sum up the expansiveness of this book, or that would philosophically show Missy’s journey, and nothing was clicking. Everything sounded too pompous or vague or just wrong. I brought up that issue tonight, and one sister threw out some ideas she’s had. They were all much simpler than the directions I’ve been going, and one of them was simply “Pithea.” I’ve thought of that before, but worried it’d be too vague as well, because no one will know what Pithea is (it’s the country in which my book is set). However, I think it makes a lot of sense to call it that, because this book is in many ways an introduction to Pithea. Thus, from this point forward, this book will be known as “Pithea.”

Words: 1300 revising “Adventures in Pithea” with two of my sisters over Skype. Also known as the 34th meeting of the Tri-County Sisterhood of the Traveling Book. We got through just over 4 pages of double-spaced text. Lots of new description was added, and we discussed the difference between “color” and “tint.”