Progress Report: Week 2 September 2014

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Yet another busy week: working on a research essay, a class presentation, a bi-lingual children’s picture book, meeting workmen, looking after a sick child, and studying for a listening test and a written language test. Oh, and also working. So, I still managed to get some writing done, and because I also worked on getting some sleep, the ideas centre of my brain went just a little crazy, as you will see from the ‘New Arrivals’ section below.
Also, my internet slowed down to unusable—apologies for the delay. It’s only just reset.

Overview


  • New words produced: 10,704
  • Old words revised: 0
  • Works completed: 29 (28 shorter works for inclusion in a longer work; 1 longer work)
  • Works revised: 0
  • Covers created: 0
  • Works published: 0
  • Works submitted: 0
  • Competitions Entered: 0
  • Bloggery: 2,322 (included in above total)

Tier 1 Tasks


  • Annual 13: Added 0 words; still needs editing etc.
  • Annual 14: Added 5,934 words and completed.
  • Annual23: Added 758 words
  • Annual21: Remodified title, created chapter outline, added 39 words

Publishing Tasks


  • Created 4 blog posts for this blog;
  • Created 7 blog posts for the C.M. Simpson Art and Photography blog.

New Arrivals


  • Annual24A: a collection of literary writings;
  • Chapbook28A-L: a series about a granny’s adventures (two complete outlines and 12 titles);
  • CreativeEssay8: a fake dissertation on time-stream theory tied to one of my time-travel ideas;
  • LiteratureEssay3A-B: studies in young adult literature;
  • LiteratureEssay4A-D: explorations of the science fiction genre;
  • LiteratureEssay5A-F: explorations of the urban fantasy genre;
  • ParanormalNovel5A: vampires and werewolves;
  • PictureBook29B-F: a bilingual book about birds in other languages
  • Poem438—A Lone Knight’s Anthem: a poem about a knight;
  • Poem439—Let the Children Play: a poem about the importance of play, dreams and keeping our children safe;
  • Poem440—I Stood Upon a Hilltop: a poem about life in the post-apocalypse;
  • Poem441—Vengeance at the Wedding Born: a poem about a wedding gone wrong;
  • Poem442—Fast Asleep: a poem about a sleeping child;
  • Poem443—The Play-Dead Pixie: a poem about a pixie;
  • ShortStory385—The Demise of Juniper Wood: a piece of speculative flash fiction;
  • ShortStory386—Pigeons in the Moonlight: a piece of flash urban fantasy about stone pigeons;
  • ShortStory387—Wreckers by Moonlight: a piece of flash speculative fiction about bad guys;
  • ShortStory388—The Heart’s Retreat: a piece of flash fiction about the savage world of business;
  • ShortStory389—Apprentice to Journeyman: a piece of flash fantasy fiction about troll hunters;
  • ShortStory390—A Devastation of Trolls: a piece of flash urban fantasy fiction about trolls;
  • ShortStory391—Forgetting the Filing: a piece of flash urban fantasy fiction about a hunter;
  • ShortStory392—The Protection Wars: a piece of flash science fiction about war;
  • ShortStory393—Garlic and Running Water: a piece of flash urban fiction about vampires;
  • ShortStory394—Flowers of the Medilo: a piece of flash science fiction set in the Medilo Swamp;
  • ShortStory395—Dragon Barter: a piece of flash fantasy fiction about bargaining with a dragon;
  • ShortStory396—A Marriage Short-Lived: a piece of flash fantasy fiction about a short-lived marriage;
  • ShortStory397—The Pixies Send for Help: a piece of flash urban fantasy fiction about a pixie SOS.
  • ShortStory398—Dealing with Death: a piece of flash speculative fiction about an assassin;
  • ShortStory399—A Short Stay in Trollmoor Gully: a piece of flash urban fantasy fiction about trolls;
  • ShortStory400—Siegebusters Unite: a piece of flash urban adventure fiction about a siege;
  • ShortStory401—Which Apocalypse: a piece of flash speculative fiction about an apocalypse;
  • ShortStory402—Amelie’s Magic: a piece of flash fantasy fiction about magic;
  • ShortStory403—Brenna and the Fey of Bradely Moor: a piece of flash fantasy fiction about what happens when the world of the fey and mankind meet;
  • ShortStory404—Cat’s Paw: a piece of flash fantasy fiction about a cat… and buttons;
  • ShortStory405—Impressing Paulie Jones: a piece of flash urban fantasy about teenage angst amongst the magical;
  • ShortStory406—Lizardine Diplomacy: a piece of flash science fiction about diplomacy on Aquapearl
  • YANovel24A: about a young woman in steampunk Victoriana times, whose return to India is interrupted.
Location: Canberra ACT, Australia

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