CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

Well, it ended 12 days ago, but I think I’ve made my 300. It was surprisingly more difficult than I thought it would be, but it’s done. The only problem is that I’m really going to struggle to get another batch of badges in a similar time-frame ever again… unless I move cities—but that’s a problem for another day. Days 16-19 I couldn’t get out to any new mission or portal areas, so I contented myself with walking around one of the local lakes. My ankle started hurting on Day 17, so I rested Day 18, and walked it again on Day 19. I’ve walked this lake several times, before, so there were no new uniques, but I made a lot of AP over these three days, but capturing, deploying, linking and fielding as much as I could from each portal I passed. There are a lot of portals around the lake. It was an interesting learning experience on how you can build up AP by micro-fielding, and taking advantages of keys you hold further out—very satisfying, although I doubt the Enlightened agents

Very busy week, with the commencement of a 3,000-word assignment and taking notes for a second—two books I wanted to reference for the second essay were recalled early, so I had to go through them early and commence the second essay. Before that it was school holidays and family visits and life in general. Today, we’re back to normal. Overview New words produced: 7,226 Old words revised: 0 Outlines and Notes: 0 Works completed: 2 Works revised: 0 Covers created: 0 Works published: 0 Works submitted: 0 Competitions Entered: 0 Bloggery: 157 University Prep and Assignments: 138 Story-A-Week Catch-Up Challenge Update This week I completed two short stories for this challenge. Stepping Up Challenge Update Languages: Slow to non-existent Non-Fiction Reading: 2 books on ISIS and university readings Ingress Updates No new challenges for me. Publishing Tasks Created 1 blog post for this blog; New Arrivals The following pieces arri