Tesla’s Travels – Completed
Too tired to really write anymore. Tesla’s Travels is completed and moving to editing. It is currently 71,597 words. Editing will have that number fluctuating heavily.
Added to post three days later: The final chapters were emotionally an intellectually draining. It is weird to spend so much time developing fictional characters and then lose them. Like a farmer, I sit there and plant seeds and sometimes – by the end of the book – I choose not to grow that plant. I will miss the characters in Tesla’s Travels, and I now see the draw in writing serialized work. Because, the author, gets to see their children over and over again. But, I can always visit them. So pick up a book and visit your favorite world!
Read MoreProgress Report for July 13, 2014
I completed my summer course – for my MBA – on Wednesday. On Thursday, I wrote another flash fiction piece Dipper which sits at 992 words. This week, I finished reading another book: As I Lay Dying. All in all, it has been a very productive week for my writing and reading. There are only three chapters left in Tesla’s Travels, withthe second to last chapter being my hardest literary challenge to date. The goal is to have the initial rough draft of Tesla’s Travels completed by Wednesday. I want two days of time to edit before I have to compete in a contest on July 20th. Finally, I have decided to enter a secondary contest that will no longer take submissions at the end of July, which means, I need three 500 word flash fiction pieces in a very short period of time. One is half done, and the other two aren’t even close to being formulated.
Progress on Tesla’s Travels
Last progress report I had written 60,147 words. As of today, I am at 65,426 words. Thus, I wrote 5,279 words this last week. By next weeks report, I will be done with the rough draft.
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!
Read MoreProgress Report for June 1, 2014
On Friday, I noticed pain in my left hand while typing and it kept getting worse. So, I took the weekend off as a mini vacation and iced it. Instead of writing, I began outlining two short stories, prepping short stories to go to magazines tomorrow, reviewed an arc in Tesla’s Travels, and played pool and had some beers with friends. Also did a little editing for a great friend of mine and read the bulk of Light in August. Still haven’t heard from the agent who has my current treatment. That means, I will begin prepping a new treatment to go out in two weeks.
As far as Tesla’s Travels goes, I am now sitting at 33371 words and 22 chapters. Since Sunday, I have written 8156 words. It is slow moving, but I think I can have the initial draft done by mid June; if I increase my pace.
Read MoreProgress Report for May 25, 2014
Oh joy, a week has already passed me by, and I still am not into the full swing of writing. Instead of writing from Tuesday to Thursday, I went out with friends and practiced presentations for a workshop. Everything with the workshop went off without a hitch and it was well received (collaboration tools and how to use these tools to improve student engagement in in an online course). Since I lost that time, I decided to stay in this weekend and work as much as I could on Tesla’s Travels. I wrote a lot over the last couple of days and like how the story is coming together. Also, I finally got to the point where my personal dreams (like nighty night dreams, not aspiration types of dreams) are completely based in the story. Which isn’t that great, because Tesla’s Travels is a frightening world to be a part of.
Either way, the current word count is: 25215. That means, I wrote 10,800 words in the last week. The goal is to hit my old stride which is about 5,000 – 7,000 a day. Otherwise, I will miss my deadline for the middle of June.
Read MoreWebsite Modifications and Tesla’s Travels
I have made some modifications to the site’s categories. I removed all the of the different short story categories, because they were outdated and not really used. Categorizing my work is probably the hardest thing to do. Also, I added a few categories, the main one is the Project’s Progress Update. This is for manuscripts or short stories. Over summer, I will be releasing a update weekly on Sunday (this is the first one). These updates will show progress on what I am currently working on. For example, this shows the change in the word count for Tesla’s Travels.
Water, tea, tea, water, water, water coffee, water, water, tea, tea, tea, water, water, coffee, and then water till bed was my drinking schedule yesterday. That led to a high level of production and pushed the current status of Tesla’s Travels to 14415 words. I didn’t get a chance to work on the project during the week because of Time, and work. However, I set Saturday aside and got a ton done. (Insert information about Sunday’s progress).
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