Jeff Deck – Freelance Editor/Writer

Leveling: 126,154

Leveling: 125,307

We’re getting a little squeezed here, with project after project piling up in their respective urgencies.  The book is always in danger of being pushed back, tamped down, in favor of the activities that make more immediate cash for things like paying the rent.  Cannot appear shiftless to the significant other; wouldn’t want to carry any echo of my father.  I can balance all of these things if I’m extremely clever.  The problem is that I’m not.  Moderately clever, maybe.

I need my productivity system to come together, but even that keeps getting pushed off.

Some raw word count today in the form of long-delayed Melba Raven content.  You’ll understand what that means eventually.

Leveling: 122,942

Back after a while, and suddenly we have a new title, among other things.

Today’s the day for some higher-order thinking.  Several issues to address in the book.  I won’t even call it Player Choice anymore.  Time to fold in some ideas and background information from my reading in various books.

Some time later… I’ve progressed in a few aspects, but there’s still much to do.  The book will now be called Stupid McFlare-pants.

Hey, how about a little Tiki Hut in your day.

Player Choice: 122,625

Did exactly what I said I was going to do and cut out the yellow text, threw it into an entirely different document altogether.  Boom, you bastards, you’re gone.  Lost about 13,000 words in the process, but who needs ‘em?

Now, to make a list of everything that still needs fixing in the story.  There are some big issues, friends.  Whole arcs, even.

I’m running aground in the last 5th draft throes of Player Choice.  There’s whole chunks of questionable text in highlight that I think I should just delete and be friggin’ done with it.

Player Choice: 135,828

Clogged schedule, productive in other areas but suddenly progress on those last tricky Melba chapters in the book is coming along real slow.  I think it would be an excellent time to visit the library tomorrow.  Probably first thing in the morning would be best.  Then I don’t know, a hot cocoa in the afternoon at Breaking New Grounds?  I’d love to get in two solid sessions of work (and freelancing projects will be sliding in there as well), but I think it’d be good to mix it up.

Okay. Let’s see if I can get it together here.

Tiki Hut below.

Player Choice: 135,649

The above number includes a fair amount of deleting and revising.  I’m now going through the highlighted text that was stuffed in the back of the document, so it has to either justify its existence through a slight transformation or else be obliterated altogether.

Two for one deal: Tiki Hut videos from today and yesterday.