Words: 1647 revising “Adventures in Pithea” with two of my sisters over Skype. Also known as the 35th meeting of the Tri-County Sisterhood of the Traveling Book. We got through just under 6 pages of double-spaced text. We made a lot of progress and were thrilled!
TCSTB
Daily Challenge Check-in: March 24, 2015
Words: 1300 revising “Adventures in Pithea” with two of my sisters over Skype. Also known as the 34th meeting of the Tri-County Sisterhood of the Traveling Book. We got through just over 4 pages of double-spaced text. Lots of new description was added, and we discussed the difference between “color” and “tint.”
Daily Challenge Check-in: March 21, 2015
Words: 4264 revising “Adventures in Pithea” with two of my sisters at the 3rd marathon meeting of the Tri-County Sisterhood of the Traveling Book (33rd meeting overall). We got through 15 1/2 pages of double-spaced text. We also ground up and brewed oregano for an experiment, played with figurines, and possibly finalized an important element in my story world that, until now, was confusing and I was never really comfortable with. It was a smashing success.
Oregano tea…yummy.
The whole meeting was just an excuse to play with toys.
Daily Challenge Check-in: March 17, 2015
Words: 1832 revising “Adventures in Pithea” with two of my sisters over Skype. Also known as the 32nd meeting of the Tri-County Sisterhood of the Traveling Book. We got through almost 6 pages of double-spaced text. We’re really flying now, falling back into that groove we’d found before Christmas when we had to stop for a few weeks. Our longest discussion was probably on what type of material would work as a mortar when grinding herbs, and what would be problematic. In the end we threw all of that out and went with a concave rock.
We have our third in-person, all-day marathon meeting coming up this weekend, so hopefully we’ll make some major progress then too. We have plans to set up a base camp with figurines so we can see how a particular scene works out. It should be lots of fun!
Daily Challenge Check-in: March 10, 2015
Words: 1959 revising “Adventures in Pithea” with two of my sisters over Skype. Also known as the 31st meeting of the Tri-County Sisterhood of the Traveling Book. We got through just over 6 1/2 pages of double-spaced text. We were skipping whole paragraphs of text that no one had any issues with. And we spent some time near the beginning discussing compasses pre-technology. So it was definitely a good meeting, and that’s considering my head was not in it at the beginning at all.
Daily Challenge Check-in: March 3, 2015
Words: 1578 revising “Adventures in Pithea” with two of my sisters over Skype. Also known as the 30th meeting of the Tri-County Sisterhood of the Traveling Book. We got through just over 5 full pages of double-spaced text. We were all very excited at how far we made it today. I don’t know why it worked out that way, as I can’t even say we didn’t still get stuck on some stuff, but whatever the reason, it was great.
Daily Challenge Check-in: February 24, 2015
Words: 726 revising “Adventures in Pithea” with two of my sisters over Skype. Also known as the 29th meeting of the Tri-County Sisterhood of the Traveling Book. We got through a little more than 2 full pages of double-spaced text. We felt like we didn’t do much, but we spent a lot of time on the mechanics of a particular element in my fictional world. We’re still working out some issues.
Daily Challenge Check-in: February 23 2015
Words: 750 (in the form of 250 words written and another half an hour of other work) total. I spent some time first coming up with a pitch for the contest NaNoWriMo is holding. I don’t know how people can fit much into the 250-word limit, but I did my best. I still have time before it’s due though, so I’m going to get some opinions and fix it up as need be. I’m worried it’s a confusing synopsis, but I’m not sure what I can do about that. The half hour after that was spent working on the shared document for the TCSTB, reading and responding to another member’s notes.
Daily Challenge Check-in: February 22, 2015
Words: 1000 (in the form of 60 minutes) world building. Some of it was more like world explaining. My sister, one of the members of the TCSTB, has been asking a lot of questions about the main country in my stories, how things work in general, and how the Power works specifically. She’s emailed me maybe 20 questions, and I was answering a lot of it tonight. Some of them are things I already know how to answer and enjoy sharing. Some of them are tough ones to answer, or things I haven’t even thought of myself. It’s so much fun, and I hope she sends me more questions still.
Daily Challenge Check-in: February 20, 2015
Words: 500 (in the form of 30 minutes) revising “Adventures in Pithea.” I mostly worked on reading and responding to notes made by one of the members of the TCSTB on our shared document. I also spent some time working on world-building, by answering random questions also posed by the same member of the TCSTB, as she’s trying to get a better handle on the fantasy world I’m creating as I go.
I’m hitting that slump that happens every few months where it’s difficult to get into the real revision. I know it won’t last forever, but I’m still disappointed in my laziness.
A Journey of Words 