Words: 810 writing. Nothing story relating, just some free-writing. I had kind of a down day today, so I found it therapeutic to just write in a notebook some of what’s been on my mind lately. I listened to the newest album from for KING & COUNTRY while doing so, and it is wonderful. This kind of writing is not something I do often, but it was kind of nice. And it counts for the challenge.
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Daily Challenge Check-in: January 22, 2015
Words: 824 revising “Adventures in Pithea.” More than half of it was rewriting, rather than editing. The Plan has been modified a bit to reflect a new environment. And the explanation of The Plan has been simplified.
Daily Challenge Check-in: January 21, 2015
Words: 1306 revising “Adventures in Pithea.” Naolin’s rather odd outburst, which was ridiculous, awkward, and completely out of character, has been erased as if it never happened. If only we could erase it from our memories.
Daily Challenge Check-in: January 20, 2015
Words: 872 revising “Adventures in Pithea” with two of my sisters over Skype. Also known as the twenty-fourth meeting of the Tri-County Sisterhood of the Traveling Book. We got through 2 1/3 pages of double-spaced text, which made us feel like we’re picking up steam again. We’d lost some over the holidays.
Daily Challenge Check-in: January 19, 2015
Words: 1036 revising “Adventures in Pithea.” Missy is less accepting of Naolin’s assertion that technology exists out in the world. She’s unwilling to just agree that people are breaking the worldwide tech ban, when it is so highly illegal.
I didn’t do any work over the weekend, because I was gone pretty much all day both days. I took stuff with me to do, but didn’t ever have a chance. Still, at least it was just a weekend, and I made myself sit down to it again today.
Daily Challenge Check-in: January 16, 2015
Words: 995 written. Nothing story-related, just some dream journaling. There was a lot to write about this time. More than ever so far. It took me half the day to get it all down, because I had to take care of other things, like getting lunch for my 4-year-old. Fortunately, I’d had some pretty vivid dreams that stuck with me long enough to get most of it down. Unfortunately, I had a headache most of the day, so I decided to not push myself to get any revising work in.
Daily Challenge Check-in: January 15, 2015
An absolutely amazing geek band from Toronto announced today that they were breaking up. It’s been a sad day. Debs and Errol brought a lot to the geek music scene with their enthusiasm and their fun, catchy songs. Though they are parting ways, their music lives on (plus almost 4 years of daily webcomics). Check them out!
Words: 844 revising “Adventures in Pithea.” I’m pretty sure I solved the problem I mentioned yesterday. The smart guy of the group will be able to figure out how to use the technology, but because he gets enough information from the bad guy and from research left behind by the dead scientists in the hidden facility they’re in. Most of today’s ground covered was incorporating that in all of the areas that referenced this situation.
Daily Challenge Check-in: January 14, 2015
Words: 925 revising “Adventures in Pithea.” I’m still unsure how to incorporate one element that is crucial to the current scene. I don’t know if I should make the smart guy of the group inexplicably able to figure out how to use technology he’s not familiar with (use it in a minor way, mind you, but still, it seems a bit of a leap), or place a prop in the story that would be easy for them to figure out how to use, but seems too convenient (and would be awkward to introduce smoothly). I thought I’d figured it out. Or at least I think I remember thinking I’d figured it out. But now I’m back to not knowing what to do.
Daily Challenge Check-in: January 13, 2015
Words: 536 revising “Adventures in Pithea” with two of my sisters over Skype. Also known as the twenty-third meeting of the Tri-County Sisterhood of the Traveling Book. We got through 1 2/3 pages of double-spaced text and had some vocabulary lessons.
Daily Challenge Check-in: January 12, 2015
Words: 1036 revising “Adventures in Pithea.” Jarrett is making everyone suspicious, especially Naolin.
After a month of trying to drag myself back to this point, I’m glad I finally sat down and did actual editing work tonight. Hopefully this will be the start of a stretch of work.
A Journey of Words 