Words: 545 (a mixture of actual words counted and time equated into words). There was a little revision work done, but most of it was transferring revisions from my hard copy of “Adventures in Pithea” onto the computer. I really need to get back to real revision work soon…
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Daily Challenge Check-in: February 13, 2015
Words: 663 writing. Nothing story-related, just some dream journaling. This is actually yesterday’s post. Today I did nothing. It’s Valentine’s Day, my kids are gone for the weekend, and my husband and I had various plans throughout the day. It remains to be seen if I will do any work tomorrow either. The kids will still be gone, so I may just rebel and do absolutely nothing productive.
I’m going to do something unusual today and post the dream I wrote about. There were some things about it that were different from my normal dreams (and some that were the same). The main thing is that the man referenced in the dream was more vivid to me than people usually are. Most of my dreams involve me just “knowing” who someone in the dream is supposed to be. That is my husband, just because it is. That’s a character from a show I watched recently, though there’s nothing descriptive about her. It just is her. Or if it’s no one I would know, then it’s just a featureless person shape. This dream, though, I specifically remember what the guy looked like. It’s weird.
So read on if you want, or don’t. It’s not exactly deep and meaningful. (Disclaimer: I typed this almost exactly as I’d written it after actually having the dream. There are mistakes and the prose isn’t pretty, but I don’t care. It’s not exactly worth fixing up.)
Daily Challenge Check-in: February 11, 2015
Words: 500 (in the form of 30 minutes) transferring revisions from my hard copy of “Adventures in Pithea” onto the computer. It’s busy work that I tend to save for when I’m too tired to think (like tonight) or just don’t have a lot of time to focus on the real work. But it does have to be done eventually, so it’s all good.
Daily Challenge Check-in: February 10, 2015
Words: 1001 revising “Adventures in Pithea” with two of my sisters over Skype. Also known as the 28th meeting of the Tri-County Sisterhood of the Traveling Book. We got through a little more than 3 full pages of double-spaced text. We’re moving along.
Daily Challenge Check-in: February 9, 2015
Words: 333 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 in anticipation of tomorrow night’s Skype meeting.
Daily Challenge Check-in: February 7, 2015
Words: 3644 revising “Adventures in Pithea” with two of my sisters at the 2nd marathon meeting of the Tri-County Sisterhood of the Traveling Book (27th meeting overall). We got through 11 1/2 pages of double-spaced text. We also talked at length about how to work out some of the mechanics of my fantasy world, and we did come to some conclusions that will hopefully lead to more clearly written scenes in the future.
Daily Challenge Check-in: February 6, 2015
Words: 1250 revising “Adventures in Pithea”. Tomorrow I will be meeting with the other two members of the Tri-County Sisterhood of the Traveling Book (what I call our editing group) for a marathon meeting. We’ll be revising this same story. I decided to take it easy today in anticipation of working all day tomorrow, so I mostly transferred revisions from my hard copy to the computer. And I worked some earlier today on reading and responding to notes made by one of the members of the TCSTB on our shared document. There’s been no shortage of revision work done by me lately. I’m not sure I even need the incentive right now, but it still can’t hurt.
Daily Challenge Check-in: February 5, 2015
Words: I’m starting to see how the word count challenge can be a problem when one is revising, rather than writing. When I’m doing strict revising of the text, reading and marking and even rewriting, I count how many words I got through of the original text. But some work just doesn’t lend itself to word counting. I think for these situations, I’ll go back to keeping track of how long I work, like I used to. Then I’ll use NaNoWriMo’s rebelling guide for time to word count transference. An hour of work is 1000 words. From here on, that’s what I’ll do.
Today I read and responded to notes and revisions made on “Adventures in Pithea” by the other members of the TCSTB (editing group) on our shared document. Our day-long marathon meeting is on Saturday, so the other two are getting further ahead than they normally do for our weekly meetings. I also worked some more on transferring the revisions from my hard copy onto the computer.
Daily Challenge Check-in: February 4, 2015
Words: Another day when I can’t quantify the amount of work I did in numbers. I started going over notes I made during NaNoWriMo of things I already knew I needed to change for “Pursuit of Power”, my 2014 NaNoNovel. I thought through how to proceed with preliminary revision, and then had to stop.
Later in the evening I also read through notes and revisions made on “Adventures in Pithea” by another member of the TCSTB (editing group) on our shared document, and made my own comments back. So I did do some revision work, but can’t say how many words. I feel confident saying it was more than 500 though.
Daily Challenge Check-in: February 3, 2015
Words: 1266 revising “Adventures in Pithea” with two of my sisters over Skype. Also known as the twenty-sixth meeting of the Tri-County Sisterhood of the Traveling Book. We got through a little more than 4 full pages of double-spaced text. That was a smidge more than last week, and I was thrilled about last week’s progress.
A Journey of Words 