Progress Report - Week 3 July 2014

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The week before last was the best week for the year, so far—production-wise, at least. Even coming down with an ear infection and pulling longer hours on course, I still got over 7,000 words complete for the week. If I could keep this rate of writing for the rest of the year, I’d almost be content, but another semester is about to start, so we will see.

Overview


New words produced: 6,966
Old words revised: 2,272
Works completed: 0
Works revised: 0
Covers created: 0
Works published: 0
Works submitted: 0
Competitions Entered: 0
Bloggery: 253

Tier 1 Tasks


  • Annual 13: Added 824 words
  • Annual 14: Added 5,755 words

Tier 4 Tasks


  • TweenNovel1A—Orb Wielder: added 2,272 words

Publishing Tasks

 Created 1 blog post for this blog;


New Arrivals


The following ideas arrived this week:


  • Poem403—Orbital Lovers: about finding love amongst the stars;
  • Poem404—Interplanetary Philanthropy: a poem about a rescue mission;
  • Poem405—The Price of Deliberate Ignorance: a poem to increase environmental awareness;
  • Poem406—Taking Care: a poem about taking care of the world;
  • Poem407—The Planets’ Promise: a poem about seeing signs in the stars;
  • Poem408—Dragon is Another Word: a reverse cinquain playing with language – themed around dragons;
  • Poem409—Remembering Revolution: a free-form poem inspired by Bastille Day, and written, of course, on July 14;
  • Poem410—Troll Night: an englyn unodl crwca about trolls;
  • ShortStory333—Moon Justice: a piece of flash science fiction about werewolves and the moon;
  • ShortStory334—The Warehouse Raid: a piece of flash urban fantasy fiction set on the pixie dust world;
  • ShortStory335—The Wreck of the Daun Sur Angin: a piece of flash science fiction about the death of a starship;
  • ShortStory336—Birth of the Pixie Prince: a piece of flash urban fantasy fiction about the birth of a pixie prince;
  • ShortStory337—Aquapearl Assassin): a piece of flash science fiction set in the world of The Reptile’s Blade;
  • ShortStory338—Troll Congas and the Fey Lord: a piece of flash urban fantasy fiction set in the troll-hunter world
  • ShortStory339—An Agent on the Mend: a piece of flash science fiction set in the same world as An Absolute Delight, The Death of Tarkine’s Wrath, and The Pirates and the Whiny Brats;
  • ShortStory340—Rookie Rescue: a piece of flash science fiction that further develops the world of An Absolute Delight.
  • ShortStory341—Morrow’s World: a piece of a flash science-rural fantasy cross featuring colonists and werewolves;
  • ShortStory342—Last Stop—Bryony’s Tether: a piece of flash science fiction about a crash landing;
  • ShortStory343—Prey no More: a piece of flash science fiction about kidnap and ransom;
  • ShortStory344—Scorpion’s Price: a piece of flash science-urban-fantasy fiction about paying the price for a family’s safety;
  • ShortStory345—Adopting Strays: a piece of flash science fiction about rescue and adoption.
Location: Canberra ACT 2601, Australia

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