#WritingWednesday – Productivity

A bit late… sorry about that everyone

For the week of July 7-13, 2014

Well its been a heck of a crazy week around here but in this case… that is such a good thing.

In my world, terms like “crazy” and “busy” are often brought on with negative connotations as to why things have not been done.  It’s usually a crutch and a series of excuses (my words, not yours) of varying legitimacy that are used to justify the lack of progress.  But… in this case that crazy busyness has been focused on the production of getting stuff done.  And as I sit here writing this post on the day it goes live and I look at what has been accomplished in the early days of this week that I’ll report on next week, I can tell you that it’s only just getting started.

Last week saw several awesome developments on the day job front as some time consuming tasks that I was temporarily given to cover a staff shortage were re-assigned.  It also saw some new developments on the personal and social front that I’m very excited about, but will not detail here because this isn’t *that* kind of a blog.

And then theres the writing… oh and the podcasting.  So lets discuss that…. after the break.

With just under 3,000 words written this past week, not including a re-working of the first scene in the new project, I am well entrenched in my pace of 500 words a day writing goal with 6 days being for writing fiction and the 7th for blogging or working other non fiction but word count building projects.  The Novel Formerly Known as Hunter (thank you K.T. Bryski) is a project that is finally building some writing momentum in my head and while it is still early on in the process and I don’t have a formal outline for it quite yet, I’m hopeful that this time will be the time I push this project to completion.

Even though no formal outline exists as yet, there is a backbone flow chart I put together over the weekend that sorts out the underlying motivations of my villian and pulls my main characters into that scheme.    That in and of itself was worth the time I spent working on the book.  I think that’s going to lead me down a road I want to take and allow me to tell the story that I want to share with you all.

I also managed to sit down and do some project planning over the weekend.  IF things continue on the current pace, this novel should be fully drafted by November 30.  That means I won’t be participating in NaNoWriMo this year, but it will give me a good two and a half months before I leave for the Smoky Writers retreat to sit down and start working edits and re-writes of one of my other drafted projects.  That will probably be Slipspace Book 2.

And that will leave me ready to start something fresh at Smoky writers.  Which will be a good thing since I’ll have some preliminary re-writes to Virtuality to do before it sees the beta readers, I’ll be ready to work on edits to the writing project I’m doing right now, I have at least two more full length novel ideas I may want to start tinkering with and, oh yeah a seekrit project or two.

So where does the recording of Slipspace: Harbinger fit into all of this?  Great question!

I’ll fill you in on that… next week.