Progress Report: Week Ending September 17, 2016

Yes, this is the week-before-last’s report. Yes, it’s late. Yes, a lot has happened. And, yes, <sigh> my routine and priorities have changed, again. This week was the week where the change began. The week just gone – see tomorrow’s report – is the week where things changed… again. And, well, we’ll see…
Overview
New words produced: 1,862Old words revised: 0Outlines and Notes: 0Works completed: 10 (10 short works for incorporation into two collections)Works revised: 0Covers created: 0Works published: 0Works submitted: 0Competitions Entered: 0Bloggery: 3,948University Prep and Assignments: 0

Story-A-Week Catch-Up Challenge Update
Nil. Poetry catch-up was the focus.
Stepping Up Challenge Update
Languages: DuoLingo commitment made up to Friday, when things changed.Non-Fiction Reading: Nil
Ingress Challenge Updates
Via Lux Medal Progress: 325/300 new, unique portals visited for September.
Publishing Tasks
Created 6 blog posts for this blog;Created 0 blog post for the C.M. Simpson Publishing blog;Created 0 blog post for the C.M. Simpson Art and Photography blog;
New Arrivals
The following pieces arrived last week and were completed:
FF590—When Women Fight: a story set in war time – fantasy, future, or present, you decide;FF591—The Osiran Flight: a piece of science fiction flash set on a world that needs help;FF592—Mission’s End: a piece of science flash fiction about law enforcement;FF593—An Encounter with Unicorns: a piece of urban flash fantasy about unicorns;FF594—The Curse of Foresight: a piece of science fiction flash about a generations-passed ‘gift’;Poem817—Politicians): my first attempt at an epigram;Poem818—Farewell to the World I Knew: a Horatian ode that farewells an old life and world;Poem819—Trolls at Full Night: a kyrielle about a battle with trolls;Poem820—Ode to a Starry Night: an ode about space exploration, from the perspective of the space explorer; Poem821—Santa’s Hummingbirds: a short science fiction verse about adapting old traditions to new worlds, set in the world of the previous poem Ode to Hummingbirds