CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

Busy week at school and a busy fortnight ahead. Still trying to work out how to study effectively, keep up my writing and get enough sleep so that I don’t break. On the upside, stuff got done.   Overview New words produced: 7,230 Old words revised: 0 Works completed: 20 (all for two other major works) Works revised: 0 Covers created: 0 Works published: 0 Works submitted: 0 Competitions Entered: 0 Bloggery: 1,303 (included in above total) Tier 1 Tasks Annual 13: Added 0 words, awaiting editing and formatting; Annual 14: Added 5,726 words; Annual23 : Added 201 words; Publishing Tasks Created 4 blog posts for this blog. New Arrivals The following ideas arrived this week: PictureBook29A—My Friends, the Birds: a bilingual book about birds; Poem436— h Dragon’s Wrath : an englyn toddaid about a dragon; Poem437— My Choice : a cinquain about a life choice; ShortStory366— Escaping the Undead : a piece of flash zombie apocalypse fiction;...

This week just gone was almost another wipe-out, but I managed to get 8,000 words completed on Saturday, which caught me up, okay on one project, brought me nearly up-to-date on a second and saw a third, fourth, and fifth cemented as ideas. Who knew? Still getting the hang of the study, family, work balance, but it’s coming along. Overview New words produced: 8,317 Old words revised: 0 Works completed: 0 Works revised: 0 Covers created: 0 (1-3 variations) Works published: 0 (2-3 release platforms) Works submitted: 0 Competitions Entered: 0 Tier 1 Tasks Annual 13: Added 1,189 words Annual 14: Added 3,487 words Extra Tasks Annual20A: Added 71 words Annual22: Added 3,142 words Anthology27: Added 428 words Publishing Tasks Created 1 blog posts for this blog; New Arrivals   The following ideas arrived this week: Annual20A: to do with poetry; Annual20B: to do with more poetry; Annual21: to do with flash fiction; Annu...

Made the base word goal for the week—for the first time this year. My main two projects are progressing nicely, and a minor project is also advancing. Overview New words produced: 8294 Old words revised: 0 Works completed: 11 (all for inclusion in a larger work) Works revised: 0 Covers created: 0 (1-3 variations) Works published: 1 (5 release platforms) Works submitted: 0 Competitions Entered: 0 Tier 1 Tasks Annual14 —Added 5,740 words Annual13 —Added 569 words Publishing Tasks Created 15 blog posts for this blog; Created 17 blog posts for the C.M. Simpson Publishing blog; Released An Anthology of Blades to Smashwords.   Joined the Smashwords Affiliate Program. New Arrivals The following ideas arrived this week: Anthology47: themed flash fiction. Poem277—The Fey in Two Lands: about the fey in two lands; Poem278—The Dead and the Feather of Ma’at: An exploration of Egyptian mythology; Poem279—A Pixie’s Last Request: Abo...

Long week, last week, with the day job interfering with the rest of the day, but stuff got done… kinda. Tomorrow, I will post this week's progress. Overview New words produced: 3,678 Old words revised: 6,766 Works completed: 13 (for inclusion in 2 much larger works) Works revised: 0 Covers created: 0 (1-3 variations) Works published: 0 (2-3 release platforms) Works submitted: 0 Competitions Entered: 0 Tier 1 Tasks SciFiNovel1A—Freeman’s Choice: Edited chapters 36-38.   I have changed the status of the following two annuals from Extra Tasks to Tier 1 Tasks because they now have release dates in September and November of next year. Annual13: Added 1,000 words Annual14: Added 1,500 words Publishing Tasks Created 1 blog posts for this blog; New Arrivals The following ideas arrived this week: Poem236—The Horsemen for the Good of Man: about some mythical horsemen Poem237—Delivering Christmas Cheer: about one of the stres...