Words/Time: 20 minutes, adding revisions for “Pithea” that were made on paper into the computer. I’m too tired to do anything else and heading off to bed early.
revision
Daily Challenge Check-in: September 11, 2015
Words/Time: 55 minutes, 35 of which was revising “Pithea.” Missy and Leahna’s conversation about what Leahna is mixed up in is more streamlined. It gives Missy (and the reader) actual info, but I’ll wait for the opinions of the TCSTB about whether that part should stay or remain more of a mystery. Also, Missy realizes even more about why the bad man who tried to kill them all seemed so familiar. Another point I’m actually not sure should stay.
I again started my writing time doing some of the activities on the post I made yesterday with NaNo prep activities. I did two more of the activities–3 and 6. I won’t be able to do to 4 without remembering to do it during the day (my writing time is almost always at night), and the picture for number 5 proved to be too difficult to write for, since I know who they are.
Tomorrow there will be a new list.
Daily Challenge Check-in: September 10, 2015
Words/Time: 48 minutes, half of which was revising “Pithea.” Missy and Leahna now wait to talk about Missy’s concerns until they have left the company of Alexander. And Missy is not quite as in the dark or naive as she was before about Leahna’s own part in Alexander’s questionable actions.
But I started my writing time doing some of the activities on the post I made today with NaNo prep activities. I have a partial outline for the story I have been planning to write for this year’s NaNo. It is another in the same world as “Pithea.” I’m still working on editing “Pithea” (though I’m actually seeing the light at the end of that tunnel), and then I have “Pursuit of Power” to start revising. It is not the most important thing right now for me to add another novel to that pile.
So I’m going to take some time out of my normal revising work over the next week or so and do some of the activities that I’m suggesting for others. I only got to two of them, and then realized how difficult it would be to make something up for the second image, since I know those people and what’s going on in that picture. Not impossible, but more time than I wanted to spend, since I still had normal revision work to get to.
And while I may still decide to write the story I’ve already outlined, maybe I’ll go with something I produce from these activities instead. There’s still a lot of time to decide.
Daily Challenge Check-in: September 9, 2015
Words/Time: 20 minutes working on getting scenes from “Pithea” into Scrivener in my quest to organize chapters. I’ve also been working a lot on getting a blog post ready that is full of story seed prompts in anticipation of NaNoWriMo.
Daily Challenge Check-in: September 8, 2015
Words/Time: 2825 words revising “Pithea” with two of my sisters over Skype. Also known as the 54th meeting of the Tri-County Sisterhood of the Traveling Book. We got through 7 1/2 pages of double-spaced text. We started almost an hour late again, but at least we managed to get a higher amount done this week. And now I have to come up with a description for a fictional animal that Missy has encountered. I dislike that part of writing speculative fiction.
Daily Challenge Check-in: September 7, 2015
Words/Time: 1 hour, 48 minutes , adding revisions for “Pithea” that were made on paper into the computer, and then going on to add more to the scene I stopped in the middle of rewriting yesterday.
Daily Challenge Check-in: September 6, 2015
Words/Time: 70 minutes, revising “Pithea.” Most of it was rewriting, as a scene in which Missy, Leahna, and Alexander (latter two being main characters of “Pursuit of Power“) recover from an encounter was kind of flat before. The scene also included Alexander learning some important information for the very first time, but things were disjointed and disorderly. So I’m working on smoothing it out and giving it more emotion now.
Daily Challenge Check-in: September 2, 2015
Words/Time: 24 minutes, adding revisions for “Pithea” that were made on paper into the computer. I got that done much earlier in the day than usual, and it’s a good thing. I’ve had a cold coming on the last few days, and my condition rapidly deteriorated this afternoon. As of my normal evening writing time, my brain was completely mush. I may have excused no-writing-work days over the next few days.
Daily Challenge Check-in: September 1, 2015
Words/Time: 1621 words revising “Pithea” with two of my sisters over Skype. Also known as the 53rd meeting of the Tri-County Sisterhood of the Traveling Book. We got through 5 1/2 pages of double-spaced text. We started almost an hour late again, and this was the first time in a while we’ve done this little. There’s a lot going on in the lives of the people in the group, though, and sometimes it comes to the surface before we can get going.
Daily Challenge Check-in: August 30, 2015
Words/Time: 40 minutes, revising “Pithea.” I’ve been comparing a scene from this book with one in “Pursuit of Power,” in which the two storylines converge for a little bit. I wrote the scene two different ways, from sort of two different perspectives, and I’ve been going through them both to pick the best parts and make one single scene from that. I am almost completely done with this task, after which I’ll finally be going back to normal revising.
A Journey of Words 