30-Day 5K – Day Ten Sunday, June 10, 2012

Well, my plan from yesterday worked; Chapter 27 ended with 4647 words, a couple hundred below the limit, which means that I may have a new mechanism in place for getting through the rest of these chapters.

I rewrote and edited 7806 words today (the middle of reading Animal Farm again). This could have been more, but after pushing myself to church today and spending most of the afternoon trying to troubleshoot my “TV” laptop again (Seriously, though…), I only got started a little after 8:30pm today.

Chapter 28, at first glance, looks very promising in that this will be the first chapter where I’ll be happy to make edits. I knew it was far too long when writing it, but this chapter delves into some interesting politics from multiple sides, which allows me to play devil’s advocate with myself, while trying to prevent my own politics from coating the book too much. Not to mention, I know I’ll have a lot to cut, and at 190K words, I might just push myself into the 170s if I focus.

I’m beginning to see light at the end of this dark tunnel of editing and I may even be able to keep all plot points I’d wanted by the end, too.

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A Cool Head Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Yesterday, something phenomenal happened. Absolutely nothing!

After writing and posting last night, I messed around on my new laptop, playing with different video interfaces and GUIs to see what would best fit for what I want to do. I did this until I grew tired and eventually, I fell asleep without doing anything else. No progress made on any game or drawings made or Japanese practiced or anything. What’s significant here is that I arose the next morning realizing that this nothing had happened and noted that it really was no big deal. What a great stride to make!

I doubt I’ll accomplish much tonight either, though I have to say that getting over 500 words for the first time in weeks is accomplishment enough for the evening. It was 611 words (ceased the moment he opened the door) to be exact and, though a lot of them were words that may need to get cut further down the line, I really enjoyed writing for the first time in a long while.