Writing status update (#26)

It’s been almost two months since my last report, so it’s time for another update.

A great deal of the writing-related progress I made was work on my Poetry Book project, which I plan to report on this Saturday. But let’s look at the goals I set in my last update:

Continue regular work on Shine Cycle development (the prerequisite for any substantial progress at all).

As in so many previous months, I failed to keep the “regular” part of this.

Outline at least the rest of The Longest War by sequence.

Progress—I’m perhaps a tenth of the way through the “third arc” of The Longest War, and was moving quickly when I worked on it at all—but I didn’t accomplish this.

In fractalling the culture of the Empire and the Sunshine Kingdom, get at least to the end of the “Communal Identity” subsection.

I did get to the end of that subsection, but no more than one question farther.

Write at least four character histories.

I finished three … which is, again, progress.

Write at least a couple of hundred words of “actual prose.”

As usual, nothing.

I’m going to reduce my goals for the next month, because I will have other projects demanding enough time I expect to be able to spare little for these. But I will still set goals because I don’t want to slip into stagnation.

Continue regular work on Shine Cycle development (the prerequisite for any substantial progress at all).
Outline at least the rest of The Longest War by sequence.
In fractalling the culture of the Empire and the Sunshine Kingdom, get at halfway through the “Negative Identity” subsection.
Write at least two character histories.
Write at least a hundred words of “actual prose.”

We’ll see.

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