Time worked: :48
Work done: Revising “Adventures in Pithea.” Wounds have been mended, and Missy is flirting with her true purpose in life.
revision
September 3
Time worked: :56
Work done: All spent transferring revisions from paper to computer.
September 2
Time worked: 1:30
Work done: Fifth meeting of the Tri-County Sisterhood of the Traveling Book. We got through 6 paragraphs this time. I’m still not sure what to do to pick up the pace, as we did try something new between the last meeting and this one, and only managed to make it through six. We get stuck a lot on word choices that later (and to an outside observer) seem unimportant, but we can’t all agree without the discussion. Tonight, we even had a bit more argument, which we didn’t resolve and may be picked up again next week.
August 30
Time worked: 2:31
Work done: Revising “Adventures in Pithea.” Naolin accidentally made Evan laugh, then immediately had to jump to Missy’s defense against the same man. I also worked on transferring earlier revisions from paper to computer.
August 29
Time worked: :37
Work done: Worked on revision notes for “Adventures in Pithea,” comparing notes online with one of the members of the TCSTB. Then wrote some more for the after-AiP mini-plot line I’ve been working on.
August 28
Time worked: :53
Work done: Some time was spent writing the sort of mini-plot I started a few days ago that isn’t for this novel. However, I also worked some on the revision of “Adventures in Pithea,” because I know that I can’t just stop completely because it’s more fun to write new material than to edit the old. So now our heroes have found their temporary respite, with some new prodding from Naolin.
August 27
Time worked: 2:16
Work done: Some time spent transferring revisions from paper to computer. The rest was writing the sort of mini-plot I started a few days ago that isn’t for this novel. But I’m spending time on it anyway because I want to.
August 26
Time worked: 2:32
Work done: Fourth meeting of the Tri-County Sisterhood of the Traveling Book. We got through 5 paragraphs, which seemed like a lot at the time, but I guess isn’t exactly flying. However, we made it through the rest of the exposition (besides the actual intro, which we skipped for now), so next time we’ll start on the action. I am hopeful that that will go more quickly, but I may be disappointed to discover that it’s no different. As much as I feel the three of us are making the story better, let’s face it, there are over 3000 paragraphs in the whole story. At the rate of 5 paragraphs per week, it will take us 11 years to go over the whole story. I just don’t know what to do about it.
Before the meeting, I also worked more on the storyline I started yesterday, which takes place after this book, but is just so badly needing to come out.
August 22
Time worked: :45
Work done: Revising “Adventures in Pithea.”
August 20
Time worked: 1:48
Work done: Third meeting of the Tri-County Sisterhood of the Traveling Book. We only got through 3-4 paragraphs in that time, which we all agree is problematic. We may have to discuss in the future what we can do to speed that up a bit.
A Journey of Words 