Progress Report: Week 3 May 2014

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Went down with the flu—again, and only had one morning trip on the bus, which seems to be where most of my writing gets done during semester. I’ve completed less than half of the 7.000-word target for the week. On the up-side, I have passed all the mini-tests and returned to the pre-reading for the final draft of an essay. Guess what I’ll spend Sunday on? After that, I might be able to write some more. Here's to fingers crossed, hey.

Overview

New words produced: 3,374
Old words revised: 0
Works completed: 13 (for inclusion in a longer work)
Works revised: 0
Covers created: 0
Works published: 0
Works submitted: 0
Competitions Entered: 0

Tier 1 Tasks


  • Annual 13: Added 432 words
  • Annual 14: Added 2,942 words

Publishing Tasks


  • Created 1 blog posts for this blog;

New Arrivals

The following ideas arrived this week:


  • Poem370—The Hidden Face: a cinq-cinquain about a person’s darker side;
  • Poem371—The Halls of the Moon: a science fiction series of verses about mankind’s progression into space, inspired by Poem292—In Memory of Hummingbirds.
  • ShortStory279—Nereia and the Ice Bears: a piece of flash fantasy fiction about ice bears and a child;
  • ShortStory280—By the Light of a Thousand Ghosts: a piece of flash post-apocalyptic fiction that made me cry;
  • ShortStory281—Rescue over Revenge: a piece of flash science fiction about a planetary rescue;
  • ShortStory282—Complications in the Autumn Harvest: a piece of speculative flash fiction about a planetary eco-system;
  • ShortStory283—The Hungry Storm: a piece of speculative flash fiction about the dangers of planetary settlement;
  • ShortStory284—The Wizard and the Vale of Tears: a piece of speculative flash fiction involving wizards, mutagens and technology;
  • ShortStory285—An Ode to the Not Forgotten: a piece of speculative flash fiction about loss;
  • ShortStory286—Bugged: a piece of flash science fiction about the dangers of planetary settlement;
  • ShortStory287—In the Morning Dark: a piece of flash urban fantasy fiction about trolls;
  • ShortStory288—Bittersweet Memory: a piece of flash science fiction about mankind’s survival;
  • ShortStory289—Jendavik: a piece of flash fantasy fiction about trolls.
Location: Canberra ACT 2601, Australia

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