Category: Thought

2/11

Leveling: 132,557

The above number represents the total number of words in Leveling‘s 6th draft.  I sent the  second/final piece to Benjamin this evening.  From this point on, changes will take place in draft 7.  But I’ll need a bit of a mental break from the book first.

Today’s Deeds
Read 50 pages — 15 GP
1000 words of writing — +1 Inv, 50 GP
P90X routine with Jane — +1 Sta, 50 GP
Ran an errand — +1 Dut, 20 GP
Did a household chore — +1 Dut, 10 GP
Finished round of editing — +1 Fin, 60 GP

2/10

Leveling: 131,261

Chinese buffet always starts off sounding like a good idea.

Today’s Deeds
-completed fifty pages of reading — 15 GP
-run with Jane and Mary — +1 Sta, 20 GP
-1000 words of writing — +1 Inv, 50 GP
-two chapters edited — +1 Fin, 100 GP
-sent advisory e-mail — +1 Gen, 20 GP

2/9

Leveling: 130,249

Something a bit different today.  Get ready for my crackpot system of getting things done, keeping track of all my projects and current tasks, and generally amusing myself.  The information below won’t make sense until I put up the widget tomorrow, but here’s a start.  I’m starting off as Fledgling because, well, that’s what happens in RPGs.  Your hero begins his adventure as a nobody, killing rats for the local farmers until he can build acclaim and save the world.

What am I going to spend all that GP on, you ask?  That’s entertainment time, friend.  Games, movies, TV– I only get to kick back in front of some screen-based amusement once I’ve earned it.  Books, of course, earn a little GP rather than consume it.

It’ll take a little while to calibrate the system as I go, to figure out if the dispensations are too generous, if the levels happen at the right pace, and so forth.

Today’s Deeds
Finished the System — 50 GP
Went to post office to mail packages — +1 Dut, 20 GP <– This was a trial. The post office on McDonough St in Portsmouth is imaginary.
Freelance writing interview — 30 GP
Household chore — 10 GP
Sent e-mail  update to X — 10 GP
Applied for two freelance editing jobs — +2 Fin, 60 GP
Did P90X routine with Jane — +1 Sta, 58 GP

1/28

Leveling: 126,348

Identifying the dropped threads.  Things planted early in the book can help later on.  And if they’re not addressed again, then the reader says, “Hey, what the hell?  Why even introduce the mischievous rabbit?”

And here’s the Tiki Hut: