So...that was a week wasn’t it?

Work this week has mostly been focused in three general areas:

1. Doing a general read-through of Ghosts to find things to fix
   
2. Fleshing out ideas and starting on proper outlines for my other project LandFall
3. Watching 2016 continue to go down the toilet...I mean...come on man...

NaNoWriMo is also a thing that’s currently happening, and while I’m not officially participating (like I did in 2014 when I wrote the first 50k of Ghosts) I am at least trying to write every day. As such, here’s a new spreadsheet...

I haven’t quite hit my internal ’1000-words-a-day’ goal, but there’s still plenty of time left in the month to get back on track. Plans for the week include:

1.  Start working through Ghosts and changing/fixing little things here and there as I go
   
2. Get a solid plan for the overarching story for LandFall, so I know where I’m going with it.
3.  Watch this a lot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPv9yKC76hE (It’s a 24-hour live stream of cats and kittens from a place called the Kitten Academy. If you’re having troubles with how this last week has gone, watch it for a while...it’ll help.)

So, until next time...

PS: If you want to check out LandFall, it’s over here: https://www.inkshares.com/books/landfall . There’s not much there at the moment, but that’ll change.

Quick update this week...not much happened except, oh yeah:

The first draft is done. At 105,694 words. It’s done. And by done, I mean there’s a whole lotta work left to do. But it’s done. D-O-N-E.

Here’s how the week went:

Nice and productive (at least in the November parts of the week).

So, now that that’s done, lots of things need to happen and I’ll go into more detail on that next Friday. For now though? Now I’m going to eat some chinese food to celebrate.

(Yes, I know that mexican is not chinese...but the first draft is done...so whatever.)

It’s Friday, Friday....Gotta get down on...

No? Okay...sorry.

Things were a bit slow this week since I was under the weather for most of it, but I made some good progress regardless:

For weeks I’ve been talking about chapters 23 & 26, with chapter 26 being the most important one of them all. Well, it’s actually been that long since I’d looked at them that I didn’t realise I had it the wrong way around. No matter. Chapter 26 is now done and chapter 23 (the important one) is well on its way.

In fact, it’s turning out like it might be quite long. My outline for Chapter 23 is 2,647 words long. So far, I have turned 693 words of that into 2,418 words. so yeah...it might be a doozy, but a worthwhile one.

We’ll find out this week though, since this week’s goal is: Finish Chapter 23 (and thus the first draft).