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Daily Writing Check-in: May 25, 2019

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Words/Time:  2 hours doing preliminary work for the new outline of “Protector”.

I continued reading the first draft, making a few small changes along the way. I’m on page 127 out of 171 of this read-through. I feel like the reading of this first draft is taking me longer than it did on the other goals in my current list. I don’t know if that’s true, or just how it feels. If it is true, the only reason I can think might be causing it is that I’m moving text around as I go, to put it in the order that I decided scenes should go (I wrote a lot of them out of order), and in the process, still deciding the order. That’s slowing me down, but I didn’t think it was that much.

Daily Writing Check-in: May 24, 2019

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Words/Time:  47 minutes doing preliminary work for the new outline of “Protector”.

I continued reading the first draft, making a few small changes along the way. I’m on page 95 out of 172 of this read-through. I don’t have a lot to say about today’s work, other than that I’m still really enjoying the story and it just got even better, as 2 of my all-time favorite characters just made their appearance.

Daily Writing Check-in: May 23, 2019

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Words/Time:  1 hour, 23 minutes doing preliminary work for the new outline of “Protector”.

I continued reading the first draft, making a few small changes along the way. I’m on page 78 out of 172 of this read-through. After several short days of work, today felt great. I was a little slowed down by having to move scenes around in my draft, to match how I had ordered the scenes in Scrivener. And I actually changed them there a bit too, to structure a few scenes better. I am really enjoying how this is shaping up, even knowing that I’ll have some big decisions ahead of me about which scenes need cut to accommodate the change from a pure romance to something much more than that. But I’m enjoying it for now.

Daily Writing Check-in: May 22, 2019

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Words/Time:  15 minutes doing preliminary work for the new outline of “Protector”.

I continued reading the first draft, making a few small changes along the way. I’m on page 61 out of 172 of this read-through. I cut today even shorter than yesterday. I was gone most of the day today, and I am just completely dead. I probably should have just skipped today, but I’ll be gone a lot of tomorrow too, so skipping a few days in a row when I’ve done so well this month wasn’t preferable.

Daily Writing Check-in: May 21, 2019

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Words/Time:  26 minutes doing preliminary work for the new outline of “Protector”.

I continued reading the first draft, making a few small changes along the way. I’m on page 57 out of 172 of this read-through. I cut today short because I have to get up early tomorrow and am very tired from today too. I’ll be gone all day tomorrow and don’t know for sure what time I’ll get home, but I’m hoping I’ll at least have enough time and energy to do a little work. We’ll see.

Daily Writing Check-in: May 20, 2019

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Words/Time:  51 minutes doing preliminary work for the new outline of “Protector”.

I continued reading the first draft, making a few small changes along the way. I’m on page 50 out of 172 of this read-through. I also spent some time rethinking where some of the locations in the story will actually be in relation to the main country. I like my new plans, but they may yet change again.

Daily Writing Check-in: May 19, 2019

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Words/Time:  20 minutes doing preliminary work for the new outline of “Protector”.

I was gone until midnight yesterday, on a full-day road trip for work. It was my birthday too, but I got to go on this road trip with my sister, niece, and daughter, and it was fun, so all in all, a good day.

I was gone until late tonight too, but made sure to get a little work in before bed. At least all I had to do was keep reading the 1st draft of “Protector.”

Daily Writing Check-in: May 17, 2019

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Words/Time:  35 minutes doing preliminary work for the new outline of “Protector”.

Today was the first time this month that I thought about not doing any work. I have to get up early tomorrow for an all-day road trip for work. But I remembered that all I had to do to get some writing work in was read, and that I might not have time at all to work on it tomorrow, so I went ahead and got my planned daily minimum, plus apparently 5 extra minutes.

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Daily Writing Check-in: May 16, 2019

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Words/Time:  25 minutes doing preliminary work for the new outline of “Protector”.

Compared to how the rest of this month went, today was a very short day. I didn’t get to my writing time until 11 pm, so even though I was enjoying today’s work, it just had to be a short day.

I’m starting this task the same way I did the last 2 on my list of writing goals–reading the first draft so that it’s fresh in my mind. This one is already the freshest, since I wrote it during NaNoWriMo last year. Add to that the fact that I’ve read different parts of it here and there in the time since then, and it’s the freshest in my mind of all of the stories I’ve worked with this year. However, I know there are plenty of scenes that I hadn’t planned in advance that I will need a reminder on, so I might as well read it all the way through.