ROW80 ~ Wednesday Update, 8/17

Update

Ever since I wrote “Wicked Witch for Hire,” Eric has entertained the notion that it is the most quintessentially Katherine thing that I’ve written. Every once in a while, Eric will riff on the idea of this witch and longer stories I might write with her at the center. Nothing has ever caught with me until something he said on Monday. And so, my nicely organized list is all upended.

I am cautiously excited to start a brand new project (well, 95% new), but I’m also aware that I am not finishing One Ahead stories. On the other hand, maybe this will get me out of my doldrums, both my recent summer ones and the ones that have been plaguing me for the last few years. I’m going to try a more structured outlining process, mainly because this is going to be more of a quest novel—something I haven’t really written.

I also started the next SQL section at Code Academy and realized the first one hadn’t prepared me well enough. So, I’ve added an additional class on MySQL from Coursera. (Yes, on top of the Macroeconomics class I just added.)

Well, I guess if I’m going to upend my list, the halfway-ish point is the place to do it. This list is getting long…

Changes/progress from last update are in blue.

Goals
Writing

Witch Project, aka “It’s all Eric’s fault.” (added 8/15)

“One Page” Novel – Some notions for “stasis” scenes and also first “trigger” event.
First Draft – Wrote about 650 words on Monday. 

One Ahead series



Rename files in a manner that makes sense.
Gather notes and make a timeline of planned stories.
Reread first One Ahead story. Decide on a subtitle.
Sorrowful Seamstress – another iteration
Horrid Haunting

Decide on subtitle for second story.
2nd Iteration
Organization Session
3rd Iteration – left off at Ch. 5
Edit pass


Draft third story


Publishing

Website


Change the header to be a SSI. Improve accessibility and validate.

update front page
update subpages


Website metrics?
Fix /images  /img
Update “Other Works” page.
Should I set up a One Ahead page? Cart before horse?
Change blog links to drive traffic to website.
Investigate the mysteries of Mail Chimp’s popovers
Update Eric’s Blog to something more responsive (added 8/14)

Personal Growth

Managing Big Data with MySQL at Coursera: (added 8/17)

Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5



Macroeconomic Course at edX:

Getting Started
Introduction and Basic Concepts
Supply & Demand
Measures of Economic Performance
Real and Nominal Values
Classic & Keynesian Models