Words/Time: 2770 words revising “Pithea” with two of my sisters over Skype. Also known as the 56th meeting of the Tri-County Sisterhood of the Traveling Book. We got through just over 9 pages of double-spaced text. There was a lot of off-topic discussion tonight, probably about an hour and a half. There is often at least some off-topic discussion during our meetings, and I don’t normally quantify it, but it was a lot tonight, and not all at the beginning like usually when it’s a lot. There were also some characterization issues, and some problems with logistics related to relative location of characters during a long walk. They’re mostly sorted.
500 Words Challenge
Daily Challenge Check-in: September 28, 2015
Words/Time: 282 words and 10 minutes.
The words were free writing from the following prompt: “A fight breaks out between a muscular person and a much weaker person who is clearly being bullied. You decide to intervene. Describe the fight, your intervention into the fight, and the result of said intervention.” It’s from the book 1000 Awesome Writing Prompts, which I have on my Kindle and use for most of my free writing right now.
The time was spent working with Scapple on my possible NaNoWriMo project. I have a lot of notes, and plenty of details, but my biggest question right now is what kind of timeline there can be, and what all will happen in between the bigger plot points. I have no sub-plots.
Daily Challenge Check-in: September 27, 2015
Words/Time: 70 minutes and 167 words. Most of the time was spent revising “Pithea.” A morbid scene has been discovered, and Naolin has found the only person left alive.
I spent some time transferring revision notes from hard copy to computer in anticipation of the upcoming TCSTB meeting. And the words were from some writing practice I did.
As I mentioned yesterday, I have hit on a possible idea for NaNoWriMo. I’m still in the broad plot part of planning, and unsure of how to make my jumbled thoughts into something more coherent. There’s still time though.
Daily Challenge Check-in: September 26, 2015
Words/Time: 1 hour, half of which was revising “Pithea.” I’ve delved into a long scene that involves a cave, a rescue mission, and some maddened animals.
I also spent some time organizing some thoughts I’ve had toward a possible NaNoWriMo project. It would be very different for me though, to a point that I don’t know if I could do it. For one thing, it’s sort of a murder-mystery–a genre I like to read but always figured would be complicated to write. And for another, it would have to be sort of comical, and I’m really not a humorous person. I worry the attempt at humor would fall flat. Still, it’s an idea, and I have time to pursue it and decide if I want to write it or not.
Daily Challenge Check-in: September 25, 2015
Daily Challenge Check-in: September 24, 2015
Words/Time: 1747 words, most of which was revising “Pithea” with two of my sisters over Skype. Also known as the 56th meeting of the Tri-County Sisterhood of the Traveling Book. We got through 5 pages of double-spaced text. We had to move the meeting to a different day this week, and thus had to also cut it short. We spent the first hour discussing ideas I’ve had over the last week in regards to a big change for the world in which the book is set before moving on to normal revision.
About 500 words were writing practice I did early this morning (like, before I went to sleep early). I used some writing prompts from a book in a continuing pursuit to drum up a new idea for NaNoWriMo this year.
Daily Challenge Check-in: September 23, 2015
Words/Time: 30 minutes, adding revisions for “Pithea” that were made on paper into the computer. I really wanted to do more today, and maybe I still will before I go to bed. Unfortunately, it was like slogging through a lake just to get to my writing time today. And then, because of the rough, “feeling like a terrible mom because I can’t control my 5-year-old” evening, it was just as difficult trying to focus my brain on actual writing work. So since this week’s TCSTB meeting was moved to tomorrow night (it’s usually on Tues nights) and I had more revisions I hadn’t put online yet, I decided it was a good night for a more mindless task.
Daily Challenge Check-in: September 22, 2015
Words/Time: 1 hour, 30 minutes, spent working on organizing the ideas I’ve been exploring for a possible NaNoWriMo project. I’ll post more detail about all of this tomorrow, but I will say that my free writing practice near the end of last week, using prompts from my story seed posts, have led me somewhere I did not expect to go.
Daily Challenge Check-in: September 21, 2015
Words/Time: 27 minutes, most of which was spent doing some of the activities in my third post of NaNo prep activities. The rest of the time I started to get back to revising “Pithea,” though I didn’t get very far.
Daily Challenge Check-in: September 19, 2015
Words/Time: 1 hour reading through “Pursuit of Power” and taking notes on things I need to fix before I can start into real revising.
I’m posting this on the 20th after just getting home from being gone since Friday evening. I count that hour as the whole weekend’s work. It was the only time I was able to get to anything writing-related, and even it was light work. The rest of the weekend was spent driving to and from a reenactment, and then dressing in funny clothes and selling my dad’s blacksmith items. This will happen again in two weeks, and then the weekend after that. My NaNo prep posts, as well as my own prep for NaNo will hopefully not fall behind during that time.
A Journey of Words 