2019 Weekly Writing Log, Part Eleven
Nov. 24th, 2019 06:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynlingThis week has been a year. Between one thing and another, I ended up losing a lot of valuable time to idiotic nonsense. Some weeks are just like that, I guess. Anyway…
- I wasn’t able to post the nineteenth chapter of Malice, but I was able to edit it into a solid second draft.
- I put Chapter 18 through yet another set of edits and posted it on FFN.
- I got started on Chapter 20. I decided to collapse the content of two planned chapters into this one so as not to interrupt the narrative flow. I also want to get to the good bits, and by “good bits” I mean smut.
- I put the last story in A Hero’s Inventory through another set of edits. I am now officially done with this project. I might return to it next summer, but we’ll see.
- I resumed work on the short story I’m submitting to the Ganondorf zine. I originally intended it to be complete at 2,000 words, but I’m thinking I’d like to add three more sections. It will probably end up being somewhere around 4,000 words in total.
- I planned on being able to finish reformatting my Haunted Haiku zine this week, but I completely lost my ability to concentrate on anything. I’m about halfway done, and I should be able to get everything wrapped up and sent off to the printer in the next three days.
- I’m almost done with the Hiromi Kawakami zine as well. Everything is ready to go except the last three pages, which are going to include short bios of the translator (myself) and the cover artist (Maruti-Bitamin), as well as a short essay about the author and the original publication.
- I wrote the third and fourth pages of the Kawakami essay I’m going to present at a conference in January. I’m probably going to cannibalize this section of the essay for the zine, but the writing needs some time to sit before I cut and paste it into a Photoshop PDF and send it to the printer.
I’m very excited to be writing a novel and making zines, but I’m also very tried. A lot of my students are going to work twelve-hours shifts during the next few days, so I gave them the entire week off. I had them do all of their tests and papers this week, and I’m going to do all the grading now so that they can get positive and encouraging feedback from me as soon as we all get back. I don’t know about them, but I am approximately 250% ready for this semester to be over. I hope everyone reading this has a calm and relaxing week with good food, good friends, and only enough drama to make the holiday interesting.
- I wasn’t able to post the nineteenth chapter of Malice, but I was able to edit it into a solid second draft.
- I put Chapter 18 through yet another set of edits and posted it on FFN.
- I got started on Chapter 20. I decided to collapse the content of two planned chapters into this one so as not to interrupt the narrative flow. I also want to get to the good bits, and by “good bits” I mean smut.
- I put the last story in A Hero’s Inventory through another set of edits. I am now officially done with this project. I might return to it next summer, but we’ll see.
- I resumed work on the short story I’m submitting to the Ganondorf zine. I originally intended it to be complete at 2,000 words, but I’m thinking I’d like to add three more sections. It will probably end up being somewhere around 4,000 words in total.
- I planned on being able to finish reformatting my Haunted Haiku zine this week, but I completely lost my ability to concentrate on anything. I’m about halfway done, and I should be able to get everything wrapped up and sent off to the printer in the next three days.
- I’m almost done with the Hiromi Kawakami zine as well. Everything is ready to go except the last three pages, which are going to include short bios of the translator (myself) and the cover artist (Maruti-Bitamin), as well as a short essay about the author and the original publication.
- I wrote the third and fourth pages of the Kawakami essay I’m going to present at a conference in January. I’m probably going to cannibalize this section of the essay for the zine, but the writing needs some time to sit before I cut and paste it into a Photoshop PDF and send it to the printer.
I’m very excited to be writing a novel and making zines, but I’m also very tried. A lot of my students are going to work twelve-hours shifts during the next few days, so I gave them the entire week off. I had them do all of their tests and papers this week, and I’m going to do all the grading now so that they can get positive and encouraging feedback from me as soon as we all get back. I don’t know about them, but I am approximately 250% ready for this semester to be over. I hope everyone reading this has a calm and relaxing week with good food, good friends, and only enough drama to make the holiday interesting.
