CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

SCENE 1: SET-UP At this stage, the PCs have either come straight from investigating Anika Collins’ house, having found the clues in her jeans pocket and identified the name of the garden centre. If the PCs didn’t find the clues in Anika’s jeans pocket , one of the PCs receives a call from their LN7 or Gehenna Corporation contact, or the detective in charge of investigating the children’s disappearance. When they answer it, read, or paraphrase the following: “It’s D.I. Mullins,” he says. “We found a couple of items that might be relevant to the investigation. It looks like the children had some interest in the Half-Time Nursery & Landscaping Services garden centre, and particularly their camellia sassanquas and Japanese Maples. We’ve got no idea why, and the constable who went to check it out says the bloke running the centre hadn’t seen any stray kids—girls or otherwise, and was too busy trying to tie his latest display of those things into some special display at...

So, even doing minimum pokegoing due to assignments, study and a hefty publishing schedule, I managed to start yesterday by earning this: Of course, to earn it, my pokemon had to be knocked out of the gym for the hours to be counted, but that only means I can keep working towards being a battlegirl. This is what happens when I remember to stop at yellow gyms, feed the inhabitants, and add a new contestant, if there's space. Also what happens when I remember to give myself time to battle red or blue gyms when waiting for the bus or on the way to and from school. And yesterday ended well, too: Got to say, that last 1,000 takes forever! Finally, I get off the bus to be met by this little guy - and those black-and-yellows that came with the level-up suddenly have purpose, because I still don't have enough candy to evolve one of my own. He might not be too good at battling, but he fills a hole in my pokedex - and that's good enough for me :-) 

Last week was busy. Next week will be just as busy. I managed to get through all the priorities bar one: I didn’t start the edit of Army Boots and Stilettos . The rest I maintained, although I was a regular 5 minutes short of my walk goal each day. I’ll try for better this week.   Week 2 Progress New words produced: 10,948 Outlines and Notes: 794 Works completed: 0 Works edited: 0 Covers created: 0 Works published: 2 ( Shades of Memory, Fate in the Sun ) Works submitted: 0 Competitions Entered: 0 Bloggery: 2,666 University Prep and Assignments: 25h 11m that I remembered to record (4h 51m reading and class prep, 4 h lectures, 6h contact, 1h admin, 3h research, 6h 20m travel) Writing News Last week saw the final uploads done for the pre-orders of Shadesof Memory (an urban-fantasy thriller novel) and Fate in the Sun a science fiction short story. I also continued work on three novels, finally focussing on Side Shift , although I struggled as the novel ...