Progress Report: Week 2, March 2014

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I write on the bus during the week; it’s the only time I have. Each working day during the university semester sees me out of the house for 12-13 hours—thank goodness the rest of my family is home, or the dog would think she was abandoned. Either way, I don’t get a lot of time for writing during the week, and then I have homework and assignments on the weekend. I’m balancing things a lot better, now, but it’s still tight. Holidays soon, and then more will be done. Now, tell me why I’m studying again?

Overview


  • New words produced: 4,464
  • Old words revised: 0
  • Works completed: 0
  • Works revised: 0
  • Covers created: 0
  • Works published: 0
  • Works submitted: 2
  • Competitions Entered: 0

Tier 1 Tasks


  • Annual 13: Added 899 words
  • Annual 14: Added 3,565 words

Publishing Tasks


  • Created 5 blog posts for this blog

New Arrivals

The following ideas arrived this week:

  • Poem312—An Alliance to the Stars: a science fiction poem about false love and going home;
  • Poem313—Hero Worship: about not looking at your heroes too closely;
  • Poem314—The Foulest of the Fair: Just because someone’s pretty, doesn’t make them nice.
  • Poem315—The Bus Stop in Autumn: as per the title;
  • Poem316—City Flock: about a flock of pigeons in the city;
  • Poem317—The Origin of Shadows: Different kinds of shadows, have different origins;
  • Poem318—The Bus Rolls Out: haiku about a bus;
  • Poem319—Black Crows A-Hunting): more about crows in the city;
  • Poem320—Bestial Beauty Denied: about someone with great looks, and a not so great personality.
  • ShortStory224—When Pixies Dance the Storm Dance: a piece of flash paranormal urban fiction about pixies and unicorns and blowing stuff up;
  • ShortStory225—Repatriation: a piece of flash paranormal urban fiction about pixies and unicorns and a homecoming with a difference;
  • ShortStory226—Meet the Medilo Range: a piece of flash science fiction about the Medilo Ranges.
  • ShortStory227—The Pixies of Hallowbranch Hill: a piece of flash paranormal urban fiction about pixies and the fey;
  • ShortStory228—Koschade’s Treaty Stands: a piece of flash science-fantasy fiction about dragons, alliances and dangers on a colony world;
  • ShortStory229—My Mother and Laome’s Vast: a piece of flash fantasy fiction about trolls, a swamp and a missing mother;
  • ShortStory230—Shift and Return: a piece of flash science fiction with a touch of horror about an interdimensional war;
  • ShortStory231—Outsider No More: a piece of flash speculative fiction about outsiders within families, inspired by Chinese culture;
  • ShortStory232—Of Petunias and Pixies: a piece of flash paranormal urban fiction about a pixie-napping;
  • ShortStory233—Sheiman’s Jungle: a piece of flash science fiction about change, those that embrace it, and those that don’t.
Location: Canberra ACT 2601, Australia

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