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.
revision
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 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 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 16, 2015
Words/Time: 1 hour, 12 minutes, the majority of which was revising “Pithea.” I used some of that time to put edits from my hard copy into the computer. The rest was spent doing a broad overview of the Big Scene near the end of the book that I’m about to start into. I had to make sure some logistics were correct, and then I started revising.
I started my writing time doing some of the activities in my third post of NaNo prep activities. I used a vastly different than normal (for me) approach to describing the setting image (1) and the scene I wrote in response to the following elements that were generated by the plot generator site (2) took a weird turn.
The whole cave thing made the scene odd to begin with.
I left it hanging, partly because I wasn’t sure I liked where it was going, and partly because it would take too long to write the rest. And partly because I was writing by hand, as most of the results of these activities haven’t been very long. I figured, since I was trying to generate ideas for NaNoWriMo, it would make perfect sense to write them in my NaNo notebook.
Daily Challenge Check-in: September 15, 2015
Words/Time: 2134 words revising “Pithea” with two of my sisters over Skype. Also known as the 55th meeting of the Tri-County Sisterhood of the Traveling Book. We got through just over 7 pages of double-spaced text. We had to stop about an hour early tonight, so a shorter amount was expected. We took some time discussing how to come up with terminology for this fictional world. I’ve been trying for a few years now to find a replacement for words like “spell” and “cast” in regards to the Power, which is a magic-like element, but I don’t want to simply use magic-related words. So we do have a few ideas, but the final decision has been put off so we could move on to more revision.
Daily Challenge Check-in: September 14, 2015
Words/Time: 40 minutes, half of which was revising “Pithea.” I further streamlined Missy and Drear’s conversation and stopped at the beginning of last big scene, which contains the climax and other major things.
I started my writing time again doing some of the activities in my second post of NaNo prep activities. I fell behind in my own assignment, because I’ve had sporadic time to work on this lately. Our 5-year-old is in an awful “fight bedtime” phase right now, which narrows my normal evening writing time by a lot. Plus I still have revising work I need to be doing.
Daily Challenge Check-in: September 13, 2015
Words/Time: 35 minutes, 20 of which was revising “Pithea.” The initial discussion between Missy and Drear makes more sense now, since before it was written as if Missy had been gone for 8 hours, when it was really more like 1.5.
I started my writing time doing one of the activities in my second post of NaNo prep activities. I only did the one because I knew my writing time was limited and I needed to get some revision in. I wrote a good bit for it though, and my hand started hurting quickly. It does that when I write by hand now…guess I’m not used to it enough anymore.
A Journey of Words 