Progress Report for June 29th, 2014
It is odd, I damaged my wrist last week and it isn’t still up to speed but is getting better since I wear a split at night. Currently, I am writing with a splint on my left hand and spending most of my time on: school work, the website, reading, outlining, writing, and submissions to magazines… and having fun when it crops up. As such, the numbers for this progress report will be slim, because I am only writing when my wrists feel normal.
So, where am I and what am I doing? After a day of outlining, I have the rest of Tesla’s Travels outlined and it will be about seven more chapters. I say about, because I will split chapters up if they are too long. Personally, I am a fan of shorter chapters because it provides time for reflection on what was recently read. I find it more readable and – as a story teller – my job is to tell a story.
I joined a book club. The book that was initially chosen was As I Lay Dying (I am pushing for us to read Candide next). Unlike my friends, I have to video conference into the club because I am one hundred eighty miles away. At the same time, for my reading list, I am enjoying Welcome to the Monkey House by Vonnegut. While, I said I will never advertise on this website. I don’t believe discussing reading is an advertisement (because I never state my opinion or endorse them) but an important aspect of my progress because all writers should be constantly reading new and different things.
So here are the hard and fast numbers for Tesla’s Travels. Previous amount of words: 55,152. Current words: 60,147 Which means I wrote 4995 in the last two weeks with an injury. Not a record breaker, but I should be done with the rough draft in the next week depending on how my vacation time goes. Have a wonderful night, this guy has to thumbs and is going to bed.
Read MoreChanges to the Short Story Section
Some people may have noticed that Gopple’s main landing page has been changed (which would be impressive because I just changed it fifteen minutes ago after drafting this post). While the original release is still available, I have modified the short story and submitted it to a magazine. The goal of the short story section was supposed to show my experimentation with writing and growth as a writer. However, magazines want exclusivity when it comes to publishing a short story and that is why I didn’t post the newly revised version of Gopple for the public. Once the entire process is done, I will publish the new version of Gopple on the website. For reference, this process will take between three and four months. If they accept it, I will update the site with when it will be available in the magazine and when I can publish to my website. Thank you in advance for understanding.
Read MoreProgress Report for June 22, 2014
Took a week off of writing to focus on school. I also finished reading Nine Stories. Back to studying.
Read MoreProceeding: 14-28 (Net Neutrality), My Comment
As a content provider who uses the internet to deliver information to my audience, I took the opportunity to comment on the FCC’s proceeding 14-28 or its more common name: Protecting and Promoting the Open Internet. Anyone is allowed to submit a comment on the proceeding, and I suggest you take the time to add your comment to the pile. Below, you will see my entire comment to the FCC. Or you can follow this link: “Theodore’s Comment to the FCC” and read it on the FCC’s website. For the record, anyone who knows me knows already knows this, I am paranoid so realize that both the address and email are fake.
Read MoreProgress Report for June 15, 2014
Another busy week, so this will probably be a short writeup of the work I completed in the last week. The week has been busy, between work and my summer class, I haven’t had much time to write. But, the goal is to write at least 10,000 words a week. So, I stayed in and worked on Tesla’s Travels for all of Saturday and Sunday. That is why this post is so late in the day, I literally just finished up the thirty third chapter. Also, I was able to finish reading another book: The Suicide Shop.
But I am tired, so let’s get to the numbers for the week. Tesla’s Travels is now sitting at 55,152 words and is 33 chapters long. That means, I wrote 10,884 words in the last two days. I think, based on the outline, the rough draft will be completed in a week or two. Then to editing!
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