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12/24 – Christmas Eve

The Shadow over Portsmouth: unchanged
Player Choice: 126,718

Yes, I am writing on Christmas Eve.  This is somewhat excused by the fact that yesterday was what really felt like the Eve, spending it at my mom’s with Jane and then opening presents this morning, because my mom would be working on Christmas proper.  Still, I shouldn’t linger here too longer in my own brain/on the page.  I just didn’t get any writing done yesterday, while preparing for the holiday, and I didn’t want to log two dud days in a row.  Wanted to get on here to put in at least 1,000 words for Player Choice (while not bothering to poke at the drying husk of Shadow over Portsmouth, whose life force has been stolen, most cruelly, by the final crescendos of the other book).

12/22

The Shadow over Portsmouth: unchanged
Player Choice: 125,046

Christmas is nigh.  And so is the end of this Player Choice draft, I can smell it.  The 6th draft will have to be devoted to making the story make sense, filling in a lot of the details that I fudged about corporate management, game design, economics, and any number of other things.  But first this 5th draft must come to its crescendo and then drop.

It was quite a run today– 3300 words for Player Choice.  And I’m afraid I have nothing left for Shadow over Portsmouth.  I can’t switch gears.  I think it may be grinding to a halt until the other is done.

 

12/21

We’re trying a little experiment here today.  It goes something like this– struggle to get a cover letter done all day while putting my once-strong novel writing on hold.  Answering the serious call of resuming cash flow.  Results:  getting a grand total of squat done today!  Congratulations to me!

Update: A little more than squat accomplished. I did draft a pretty fine cover letter.  And Jane and I were wrapping heroes.