Words: 2274 revising “Pithea” with two of my sisters over Skype. Also known as the 40th meeting of the Tri-County Sisterhood of the Traveling Book. We got through a little over 7 pages of double-spaced text. We probably spent most of our time discussing how someone would carry an unconscious person a long distance. The most realistic answer wasn’t the one I’d been imagining for years, so it took me some time to come around. We added a scene to act out to our list of things to do at our next marathon meeting.
Pithea
Daily Challenge Check-in: May 11, 2015
Words: 1000 (in the form of 30 minutes) revising “Pithea.” The story now accurately reflects the human body’s inability to swallow while unconscious. Am I the only one who didn’t realize that was a problem?
Daily Challenge Check-in: May 10, 2015
Words: 2233 (in the form of time spent) adding revisions for “Pithea” that were made on paper into the computer. For the past few days as I’ve been messing with Scrivener, I forgot that I’d made some convoluted changes that I wanted to get into the computer before I forgot what I was doing and couldn’t read all of the arrows and circles and notes. So I spent over an hour doing that today.
Daily Challenge Check-in: May 8, 2015
Words: 3000 (in the form of 90 minutes) setting up Scrivener. I’ve heard about it a lot, but hadn’t tried it yet. I thought it was too complicated and not necessary. I’m still not sure it will work for me, after playing with it for an hour and a half, adding chapters from “Pithea.” One feature I was looking forward to isn’t available on the Windows version, so that was disappointing. I’ll keep using it for now, since the trial lasts 30 days, and see if it’s enough of a benefit to keep going with it and maybe even buy it.
Daily Challenge Check-in: May 7, 2015
Words: 2000 (in the form of 60 minutes) revising “Pithea.” My hard copy is a mess with all of the scene shifting I’ve been doing. I’ll probably work on getting it transferred into the computer tomorrow or Saturday, while it’s still fresh in my mind. Meanwhile, Missy has had all of her visitors and is in the process of meeting Jonathan for the first time. He’s amongst my favorite characters (and that’s considering I love most of them). He’s supposed to be from a different country–in fact, from a country no one in Pithea would really have heard of. So I tried to have him talk a little differently, but it just came out southern hick. So I’m toning that down for now and hope I figure out a way to make his speech stand out a bit.
Daily Challenge Check-in: May 6, 2015
Words: 2500 (in the form of 75 minutes) revising “Pithea.” There are several scenes at the beginning of part 3, as Missy deals with a personal tragedy, that I’m realizing as I go through it now are all mixed up. They make much more sense in a different order. That’s what I spent over an hour working on tonight. Now Leahna tells Missy more about her friend Alexander, but not until after Missy’s had a bit of a meltdown and calms down again. Also, I’d left out any indications of the time of year, as it’s nearly winter at this point in the story, so I made Missy a little colder.
Daily Challenge Check-in: May 5, 2015
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.
Daily Challenge Check-in: May 4, 2015
Words: 2000 (in the form of 60 minutes) revising “Pithea.” Missy’s outburst with her mom has been moved to a time that makes more sense. Also, the reader is getting a bit of foreshadowing regarding the dangerous Lost Gresnorte, and I remembered it’s nearly winter in the story and plan to make that more clear.
Daily Challenge Check-in: April 28, 2015
Words: 1574 revising “Pithea” with two of my sisters over Skype. Also known as the 38th meeting of the Tri-County Sisterhood of the Traveling Book. We got through about 4 3/4 pages of double-spaced text. We felt like it should have been more than that, but we deleted whole paragraphs at one point. One of the members said we should consider today’s session more like 5 3/4 pages, so really, more like 6.
Something to note for anyone reading this, I’ve been getting back into my writing lately. I’d slacked off for maybe 2 months, and had looked forward to Camp NaNo bringing me back into it. Then my family had a minor crisis on March 31st, and during the first week or so of Camp, I just couldn’t get my head in the right space. In the last few weeks, I’ve been doing more work again, which means I should be posting here more regularly. But I haven’t been, I think because I still feel like it’s not regular enough. Camp ends in 2 days, and hopefully I will find myself with a more regular writing/revising pace afterward. We’ll see.
Daily Challenge Check-in: April 21, 2015
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.
A Journey of Words 