Words/Time: 20 minutes, revising “Pithea.” I’ve been achy and just generally feeling under the weather the last two days. I’m not sure if there’s a cause or if I just need more sleep. I decided today was a good day to just go for my normal challenge minimum of 500 words or 20 minutes, and use some of my buffer for Camp NaNo. If there’s one thing I’ve learned in the last few years it’s that pushing myself to work when I’m not feeling up to it can lead to an unwanted stretch of no work for a while. But I was at least able to focus for 20 minutes, so I could avoid skipping today altogether.

Words/Time: 1 hour, 42 minutes, adding revisions for “Pithea” that were made on paper into the computer. I still sometimes think counting this as writing work is cheating, but it has to be done. Revising on paper is a lot easier for me, and it has to go into the file eventually. And since my free time is limited, it almost always has to happen during my writing time. Plus, often when I’m making these transfers, I come across other things to change too, or redo an edit I’d already made, so there’s still some revision.

Words/Time: 911 words, revising “Pithea.” Missy’s retelling of events is a little more detailed now, which may or may not be okay. After a few sections of actual dialogue when Missy tells part of the story and Naolin reacts, it speeds through the rest with little more than a, “She told the rest of the story, and he interrupted a few more times.” So it may be too abrupt, but I’ll wait until the TCSTB gets to that part to worry about it.

Words/Time: 33 minutes, revising “Pithea.” I was working on a section that seemed like a cascade of dominos. When I started editing one part of dialogue because it was obsolete, I realized that something before it was also obsolete. Other things I’ve changed made these areas need big overhauls. Then that led to going back a little further to change something else to the rest of it would work. And during all of this, I had more interruptions from my kids than normal, and after too many of them, I gave up on being able to concentrate for the evening. So I cut it short tonight to avoid getting a bad attitude about the whole business that might carry on past tonight.

Words/Time: 2659 words, revising “Pithea.” I sped through a lot in an hour’s work. I was a little distracted by the severe thunderstorms that have been passing through the area, but the area I was working on didn’t require as much major fixing as usual. No rewriting this time at all. There are a few minor areas that I’m wondering about, if my sisters will bring up an issue with them when we get there during a TCSTB meeting, but I’d rather not draw attention to those areas. I’ll wait and see if they say anything.

Words/Time: 1 hour, revising “Pithea,” and then half an hour putting those revisions into the computer. In anticipation of our Tuesday meetings, one of the members of the TCSTB often reads on Monday evening. There is already enough in our shared document for her to read, but last week, we got through a lot more than usual. Just in case, I might as well be extra prepared. Plus, the extra half hour catches me halfway up from not doing any work for Camp NaNo yesterday.